Re: installer problems

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Samuel Rettore <rettore(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having problems installing the database, see:
>>
>> anfitrite:/opt# ./postgresql-9.0.0-1-linux.bin
>>
>> Error: Error running /tmp/postgresql_installer/getlocales  : child killed:
>> floating-point exception
>> Press [Enter] to continue :
>> anfitrite:/opt#
>>
>>
>> anfitrite:/opt# uname -a
>> Linux anfitrite 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Fri Feb 19 23:40:03 UTC 2010 i686
>> GNU/Linux
>>
>> anfitrite:/opt# cat /etc/debian_version
>> 4.0
>
> Debian is not a supported platform for the installers - we don't see
> enough demand for it to justify the testing requirements I'm afraid.

So I think what that means for the OP is that he should install
PostgreSQL by some other method - for example, apt-get, or compiling
from source.

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