On 10 Jul 2007 at 9:13, Hannes Dorbath wrote: On 10.07.2007 03:09, novnov wrote: > I have postgres 8.1 installed on ubuntu 6.10 via synapic package manager. I > would like to install 8.2, but it's not offered in the list. I think 8.2 is > offered on 7.x ubuntu, and I wonder if 8.2 will be offered on 6.10? Probably > the recommondation will be to compile 8.2 on 6.10, but I've only used binary > installations on linux and am not eager to open up another can of worms. Use ubuntu backports. Add: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse to /etc/apt/sources.list (by using sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list) The newer postgres versions will be available (I think 8.2.4 is there at the moment). For more info check out the ubuntu backports forum at: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=47 HTH
