Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n2aVT-0001HD-TJ for pgsql-bugs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2021 15:04:48 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n2aVS-0001k4-GJ for pgsql-bugs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2021 15:04:46 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n2aVS-0001ju-77 for pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2021 15:04:46 +0000 Received: from lana.depesz.com ([88.198.49.178] helo=depesz.com) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n2aVH-00072x-WD for pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2021 15:04:45 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=depesz.com; s=20170201; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Reply-To: Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:Sender:From:Date:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=JQCCRf1RMwTcewL1tQWEvtNTEQr8M8jxeR8edh+IdKs=; b=OETHqQbpySiZEZSnOT6NHoiJTV mWfxaGZGMikx+VLssRzYyqtvg91OgD2YcBKw6ryhksdKsV4m5IcXExSe1jWgLZNjRX8ETQHkWMjsy UBg483EzcQTOP5m4RL8wO7uTwytLqfcwRvN+4iYEp9bjinnAM5tKdSge5KRiwboSWIRc=; Received: from lana.depesz.com ([88.198.49.178] helo=depesz.com) by depesz.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n2aVF-000292-Uf; Wed, 29 Dec 2021 16:04:33 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 16:04:33 +0100 From: hubert depesz lubaczewski Sender: depesz@depesz.com To: "Mr. Keaton" Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Re: BUG #17348: Can never install pgsql on Ubuntu Message-ID: <20211229150433.GA5455@depesz.com> Reply-To: depesz@depesz.com References: <17348-0bcee56252174285@postgresql.org> <20211228161232.GA21313@depesz.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 03:01:29PM +0000, Mr. Keaton wrote: > This is useless, I run ``` sudo apt install postgresql-contrib libpq-dev ``` and it will stop at "Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages." Comments "this is useless" are not really helpful. > I think this is not a rare problem, I hope pg can produce a Q&A guide. I think it is EXTREMELY RARE. Reason for the problem (as far as I can tell) - why are you running Ubuntu Raring? From 2013 ?! It's no longer supported. Best regards, depesz