Re: Installing 9.6 RC on Ubuntu [Solved]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Steve Crawford <
scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> wrote:

> I'm trying to install 9.6 RC1 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial on my laptop and it
> seems broken.
>
> Installation of 9.6 RC1 on Centos was straightforward by comparison - just
> add the 9.6 yum package and install. Unfortunately Ubuntu seems
> second-class by comparison.
>
> I already have /etc/apt.repos.d/pgdg.list with:
> deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ xenial-pgdg main
>
> This works and I previously installed the PGDG 9.5 package without issue.
> Apt lists numerous 9.6 support packages (unit, repmgr, repack, plv8, ...)
> but with unsatisfied dependencies due to the lasck of postgresql-9.6.
>
> I tried adding -testing to the repo but no joy:
> deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ xenial-pgdg-testing main
>
> Is packaging just not complete or am I missing something? (I had hoped
> that getting configured for testing would be more friction-free.)
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>

In case it is useful for reference, I beat my head on it a bit more and
replaced "main" with "9.6":
deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ xenial-pgdg 9.6

Life is good, again.

Cheers,
Steve