DBMS's

[Matthew Flaschen]

Gerald I. Evenden wrote:
> On Monday 19 March 2007 3:13 pm, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 	...
>> Then you're doing it the wrong way:
>>
>> # aptitude install postgresql postgresql-client
>>
>> will get you the server, the client, and all the support software.  This is
>> a debian-based OS - you never need to worry about dependencies.
> 
> Probably so.  I went back and "removed" everything I did and executed the 
> above 'aptitude' line.  It installed version 7. and muttered about updating 
> to version 8. .  If it goes this far why didn't it do 8 in the first place?  
> Oh well, we will ignore it for the moment.

Try:

sudo aptitude remove postgresql postgresql-client
sudo aptitude install postgresql-8.1 postgresql-client-8.1

Matthew Flaschen