[wplug] apt-get problems in debian.

[harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu]

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Zach Paine wrote:

> Basically libpgsql2 appears to be the offending package.  You should run
> apt-get update however, because I've checked and python-pygresql no longer
> depends on libpgsql2 but rather libpgsql2.1.  That should remove the
> dependancy problem.  If the package still won't go away then, run dpkg -r
> libpgsql2.  That should try to remove the files without removing the config
> files.  Lastly, trying creating a dumby /etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf
> (touch /etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf) and then running apt-get -f
> install.  Write back here if none of this works! 

that seems to have worked. thanks alot. for what it's worth, it was
creating the postmaster.conf file that did it. 

-- 
john