On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:12:48 -0400 (EDT) Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net> wrote:
> i'm trying to figure out an error message i enoountered while upgrading
> a RH8.0 system from 7.3.2 to 7.3.3 using RPMs.
ok, i discovered a mistake in my original report. i wasn't trying to install
> postgresql-pl-7.3.3-1PGDG.i386.rpm
i was trying to install
postgresql-contrib-7.3.3
when i got
> error: Failed dependencies:
> perl(Pg) is needed by postgresql-contrib-7.3.3-1PGDG
and the following is still correct:
> this confused me, because i thought the perl stuff was installed:
> rpm -qa | grep perl
> ..
> perl-5.8.0-55
> ..
> perl-DBI-1.30-1
> perl-DBD-Pg-1.13-5
> ..
so who supplies perl(Pg) for postgresql-contrib if it doesn't come from
postgresql-pl or from perl-DBD-Pg-1.13-5?
should i just rpm -ivh --nodepends and hope? right now my development
system is broken because i need pgcrypto and it's part of contrib...
richard
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