On 03/03/2012 10:33, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote: > Lørdag 3. mars 2012 01.43.29 skrev Gavin Flower : > >> I think if you are going to select a member of the Debian family, I >> would strongly recommend Debian itself. I have the impression that the >> Debian community is more serious about quality than Canonical (the >> company behind Ubuntu). > > I haven't run Debian for ten years, when I had a headless old PC running with > a LAMP stack. Since I discovered Gentoo, that has been my preferred distro. > However, I'm currently in the process of setting up a dedicated Web server > with Debian as it may one day be another person's responsibility to admin > this > box, and I would consider it cruel to leave a Gentoo box to anyone but the > most devoted Linux fans. > > My current gripe is this: The «stable» version of Postgres on Debian is 8.4. > In order to install 9.1, I added this line to /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > Then I did an apt-get update and > > apt-get install postgresql-9.1 postgresql-client-9.1 > > Finally I commented out the added line of /etc/apt/sources.list. > > This seems a rather roundabout way, is there a better one?
You can get Postgres 9.1 from backports.debian.org: deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland r...@iol.ie -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
