On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:30:24PM +0700, Tito Mari Francis Escaño wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, another showstopper popped up. I followed the
> steps in the following URL to install Debian 3.1:
> http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_sarge
>
> I plan this to be the base of my server deployments of Debian GNU/Linux.
>
> I tried to install PostgreSQL in Debian 3.1 using the following build script:
...
If you're preparing a base configuration for server deployments of
Debian GNU/Linux, I highly recommend building a backported package of
hatever applications you need (ie: PostgreSQL 8.0.5 in this case). Using
Debian's package management system allows you to have a central database
of installed software and their corresponding versions. It also allows
you to use apt and build a custom apt repository to allow you to
distribute updates for applications whose packages you maintain
internally.
In my experience, mixing a package management system driven distribution
like Debian with applications built and installed directly from source
only works for the first few deployments, after which it becomes tedious
to maintain and upgrade.
> It complains not finding "readline". I need tips or pointers on this.
A very handy tool for situations like this is apt-cache, which you can
use like so:
$ apt-cache search readline
Another thing you can do is look at the control file of Debian's
PostgreSQL sources, which provide a list of build dependencies. You
probably nead one of the readline development libraries, although I
don't know exactly which version PostgreSQL 8.0.5 needs. Debian 3.1 has
libreadline4-dev (4.3) and libreadline5-dev (5.0). Both are installable
using apt-get.
--> Jijo
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