Re: [coLinux-users] apt-get install postgresql

[Sam M. <pa...@gm...>]

I would suggest to attempt to 'purge' the package first

apt-get purge pustgresql

Or similar, this may solve the problem.

Sam

On 4/28/06, Andrey Gladilin <agl...@sw...> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have a problem of installing postgres in coLinux. I use debian image
> downloaded from coLinux site, 1.6 GB.
> When I try to perform `apt-get install postgresql`, the postgresql-7.4
> package is downloaded  and the installation fails when configuration star=
ts.
>
> Here is installation log (w/o package downloading ):
>
> colinux:~# apt-get install postgresql
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> postgresql is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 114 not upgraded.
> 2 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up postgresql-7.4 (7.4.12-3) ...
> Error: cluster configuration already exists
> dpkg: error processing postgresql-7.4 (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of postgresql:
> postgresql depends on postgresql-7.4; however:
> Package postgresql-7.4 is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing postgresql (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> postgresql-7.4
> postgresql
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> By the way, I tried to build postgres from sources, and had to install
> gcc. Compiler installation also failed with the same error of postgres
> configuration.
>
> I apologize for silly question, I'm a newbie in Debian and in coLinux.
> Thanks.
>
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> Andrey Gladilin
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