Received: (from news@localhost) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA23669; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:12:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from news) X-Authentication-Warning: hub.org: news set sender to using -f From: Bill Geddes X-Newsgroups: comp.databases.postgresql.announce, comp.databases.postgresql.bugs, comp.databases.postgresql.docs, comp.databases.postgresql.hackers, comp.databases.postgresql.interfaces, comp.databases.postgresql.patches, comp.databases.postgresql.ports, comp.databases Subject: Re: Installing PostgreSQL Date: 21 Sep 1999 23:11:59 GMT Organization: Debian GNU/Linux site Lines: 23 Message-ID: <7s93bv$1vp$1@nonews.col.hp.com> References: User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-19990805 ("Preacher Man") (UNIX) (Linux/2.2.10 (i586)) To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org.pgsql-announce@postgresql.org.pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org.pgsql-docs@postgresql.org.pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org.pgsql-patches@postgresql.org.pgsql-ports@postgresql.org David Godin wrote: > Hi all, > This is the output of initdb after a clean install of all the 6.5.1-2 RPMs > I downloaded from ftp.postgreSQL.org. To install them I did an "rpm -ivh post*". . . . > It's obvious i'm doing something wrong! Can someone help me? > David Godin > godind@REMOVE_THIS.voxco.com I have installed postgres on a few Debian systems - and have been able to test the postgresql database just fine right out of the box. Perhaps you could take the debian package, run it through alien and install it instead of your rpm package. Some extra work, but... -- Bill Geddes geddes@col.hp.com