Re: BUG #16740: Conflicting installations

Hi

You mentioned Ubuntu 19.10. Did you mean 20.10?

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 6:55 PM PG Bug reporting form <
noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:

> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
> Bug reference: 16740
> Logged by: jet2018
> Email address: ezrajet9(at)gmail(dot)com
> PostgreSQL version: 12.0
> Operating system: Ubuntu 19.10
> Description:
>
> After following the guidelines on your documentation's installation, i have
> faced a problem whose code is below:
> 1: I can't finish the installation. When I try on that I get this:
>
> postgresql depends on postgresql-12; however:
> Package postgresql-12 is not configured yet.
>
> dpkg: error processing package postgresql (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> No apport report written because the error message indicates its a
> followup error from a previous failure.
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> postgresql-client-11
> postgresql-12
> postgresql
>
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> This does not only stop on the installation part, whenever I try to
> uninstall this also it show the same. I thought it was a conflict maybe
> between 12 and 11 versions, but now I cant remove any!!!
>
> So the state am in is that I can't proceed or withdraw, what should I do?
> I tried cleaning using
> sudo apt-get autoclean
> and it failed to solve the error
>
> I tried forcing the installation using
> sudo apt-get install -f
>
> I surfed the whole of stack-overflow, it did not help too!!
> SO WHAT DO I DO
>
>

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Sandeep Thakkar