Install PostgreSQL 8.2.5

[Derek Broughton]

Gunawan wrote:

> I know that using apt-get is the easiest way.
> In learning linux I would like to try to build application from the
> source. Though it would be rather difficult but I think nothing wrong with
> it. CMIIW.

It's not generally very difficult to build from source.  Once you have
everything in "build-essential" many packages will build with the standard
three steps: ./configure; make; sudo make install

But what you lose is the dependency handling of apt, as you've seen.  Beyond
needing build-essential, many packages will need other source dependencies,
and it's not always clear what those dependencies will be.
-- 
derek