[ubuntu-za] Database Problems - Installing PostgreSQL

[Ian Whitfield]

Thanks All
Responses....

To Jonathan - I'm using OOBase at the moment but HAVE to move to 
something better. Looked at Glom but not suitable.

> That doesn't seem like the best idea, to be honest.  Doing the hard
> stuff, because the easier stuff was giving too much trouble?
>
It's ALL hard for a newcomer - just trying to get results!! I have been 
at this for almost two months and have yet to get anything working!! No 
wonder users don't 'like' Linux, I could do this in a couple of hours
in Windows!!

I think my best option is to carry on and 'crack' this some how. My only 
other options are to stay with OOBase (no ways!!) or go back to Windows. 
I have everything else working on Linux so this would be my first choice.

Many of the suggestions in the last posts seem to be checking ports and 
network connections etc. But as I said in the beginning I'm running this 
on a separate machine NOT across my network. Everything is on the same 
computer for development. Once (and if) I get it working I might try to 
access it from my main computer.

So what to do now?? As one reply stated "Here we are, running the 
biggest and latest and greatest, DB's, Uber Systems, etc, and we can't 
sort him out.". Should I "crash" this machine, re-format, re-install 
Kubuntu and all software and start again from scratch? (An old Windows 
trick when all else fails!!) Or should I persist and keep fiddling with 
what I've got?

Once I have the DB installed I'm happy to use PHP (despite all the side 
comments about it) and it seems that PHP-GTK is the way to go. BUT (here 
we go again) Googling this I find a whole lot of articles about this NOT 
working with 9.10 because of a bug!!

Thanks to Wayne for finding this interesting and for the above DB 
comment. I can assure you Wayne I'm doing LOTS of reading, Googling and 
searching also! Your recommendation however uses MySQL which I'm unhappy 
with now it's in the Orical camp.

Matthew - thanks for the explanation - I understand the commands... it 
was the output I didn't follow. I used your suggestions and found a 
backup copy of the two conf files so I re-enabled them. Re-started the 
computer and ran the 'Start' command. It failed with error "Could not 
open configuration file - permission denied". I checked the permissions 
and they are set to Root and grayed out so I can't change them.

So yet again I ask - what now?

I do hope all the comments about - "Stay with it you will love it once 
you get there" turn out to be true!!!

Thanks

Ian