[ubuntu-uk] Problem installing v8.04 from an imperfect 6.06 setup. Help requested

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Hi Louis,

Quoting Louis Gidney <LouGid39 at cromer.demon.co.uk>:

> Dear Matthew,
> (responses interspersed below)
>
> You wrote:
>> I'm traveling tomorrow however I'll take a look at this when I reach
>> my destination if no-one else has leapt in.
>
> Don't let this spoil your weekend.
> I am an "oldie" nowadays, in retirement.
> This IS important to me, but not so urgent.

It's fine, I've got a few hours to kill over the next few days anyway!
>> Hmmm, do you know if you are using Postgresql?
>
> No. I confess have no idea what it is.
>  From what appears in Synaptic's window I get the
> impression it is some kind of database or record
> of downloads and upgrades (?).

Spot on, it's a database engine much like MySQL etc.  From the output  
of the netstat command it doesn't appear to be running, so we may be  
able to remove it.

I've noticed that I mistyped a command in my last email and the final  
command should have been

sudo aptitude upgrade

can you re-run this command and see if that works?

if it doesn't, type the following:

sudo aptitude remove postgresql-8.1

and if it says that anything other than postgresql needs to be  
removed, paste the message into a reply to this one, otherwise, let it  
remove the software and try the upgrade again.

Kind regards,

Matt
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
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