Can't get the backport to install

[kpgalligan]

I hate posting this because I'm sure it's going to seem like a real nub issue. However, I can't seem to force a backport to install.

I'm trying to install postgresql on a server install. In the backports packages list, it looks like 8.0.6 and 8.1.? is available. Ideally I'd probably shoot for the 8.0.6. I guess the first question is if this is a really bad idea?

After that, how do I get it to work? I ran just...

apt-get install postgresql

before adding the backports source. It installed 7.4. I ran remove on that, which hopefully worked (but ran very quick). That's when I moved on to the backports.

I've read the "getting started"...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=40291

I added the following to my sources file...

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

Then I've tried...

apt-get -s install postgresql

It says it'll install 7.4.

I tried...

apt-get -s -t breezy-backports install postgresql

and it said the same. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

[Sutekh]

...

I added the following to my sources file...

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

Then I've tried...

apt-get -s install postgresql

It says it'll install 7.4.

...


Did you use
sudo apt-get updateIn between these steps, to refresh the package lists, now that you have added the backports repository?

[kpgalligan]

Did you use
sudo apt-get updateIn between these steps, to refresh the package lists, now that you have added the backports repository?

Yeah. I ran the update.

Should I need to specify the '-t breezy-backports', or should it find the newer version?

[Sutekh]

It should find the newer version and try to install it. I'm not sure why its not working. When you run apt-get update are the repository lists refreshed without errors?


You could go the long way and download the .deb from the Ubuntu repositories

Ubuntu Packages - postgresql-8.1 (http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy-backports/misc/postgresql-8.1)

and install the dependencies yourself, then install postgresql-8.1 with
sudo dpkg -i postgresql-8.1_8.1.2-1~breezy1_i386.deb