2018-03-21 14:02 GMT+01:00 Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 03/20/2018 10:52 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote: > Looks like these posts are coming through a news group to me. > I am Ccing list to get response back there. > > >>>> >>>> Is Pgdg 10.3 even available for ubuntu 17.10? How the heck does >>>> one upgrade to it? >>> >>> >>> 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)?: >>> >>> http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/dists/bionic-pgdg/ >> >> >> I tried doing a full reinstall of Ubuntu-17.10 followed by a postgresql >> install from the bionic repo (instead of installing 10.1 per above and >> trying to upgrade) >> >> # apt-get -qy install postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-contrib \ >> postgresql-doc pgadmin3 postgresql-server-dev-10 libpq-dev >> Reading package lists... >> Building dependency tree... >> Reading state information... >> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have >> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable >> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created >> or been moved out of Incoming. >> The following information may help to resolve the situation: >> >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >> libpq-dev : Depends: libpq5 (= 10.3-1.pgdg18.04+1) but it is not going >> to be installed >> pgadmin3 : Depends: libgcrypt20 (>= 1.8.0) but 1.7.8-2ubuntu1 is to be >> installed >> Depends: libpq5 (>= 8.4~) but it is not going to be >> installed >> Recommends: pgagent but it is not going to be installed >> postgresql : Depends: postgresql-10 but it is not going to be >> installed >> postgresql-client : Depends: postgresql-client-10 >> postgresql-contrib : Depends: postgresql-contrib-10 >> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > > If it where me I would simplify the above for the moment to : > > apt-get install postgresql-10 > > >> >> Is there any reason now not to conclude that the 10.3 bionic version is >> simply incompatible with Ubuntu-17.10 (at least without a lot more package >> wrangling chops than I have)? >> >> One can install postgresql-10.1 but one cannot upgrade it to get security >> fixes or to be able to load data dumped from another 10.3 database. >> >> Given that Ubuntu-18.04 will be out soon I guess this is pretty much moot >> except for a few unfortunates like me who absolutely need 10.3 but have no >> option to upgrade. I guess the lesson is that running the Pgdg versions >> of Postgresql on any but the LTS versions of Ubuntu is pretty risky. >> Live and learn. Maybe this will help someone else. I have followed more than once the exact directions from the download page: https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/ Just pretend you are running 17.10 instead of 17.04. It simply works. -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS
