On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Benjamin Exley wrote:
> Has anyone else run into problems with postgresql when using apt-
> get to upgrade distibuntions on Debian? My debian box has been 
> out of service for a while and I'd like to revive it. Since 2.2 is now 
> out, it did an "apt-get dist-upgrade". It went along just find for a ling 
> time, but then crapped out on postgresql with the message that the 
> post-install script was failing.
> 
> I tried to uninstall it by hand, so an then reinstall it, but I couldn't 
> quite get it to go. I know that when you are installing it tells you to 
> log on as postgres and run postgresql-dump. I tried to do this, but I 
> had already deleted the old dat directory, so there was nothing to 
> dump. 
> 
> I don't really plan to use this package, but apt-get seems to really 
> want to install it. Anyone have any ideas?

Then remove the package... if you're not going to use postgresql, why
bother having it?

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