[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen installation problems

[Mike Rylander]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Keith Kelley <keith.kelley at wmich.edu> wrote:
> Thanks Dan. apt-get install postgresql-plperl-8.1 got me a bit
>  farther, until this:
>
>  wlib-210:/usr/bin# su -c "psql -f
>  /usr/share/postgresql/8.1/contrib/tablefunc.sql evergreen" -
>  postgres
>  /usr/share/postgresql/8.1/contrib/tablefunc.sql: No such file or
>  directory

For that you'll need postgresql-contrib-8.1.

--miker

>
>  >>> Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com> 02/15/08 1:36 PM >>>
>
>
> On 15/02/2008, Keith Kelley <keith.kelley at wmich.edu> wrote:
>  >  Hi John,
>  >
>  >  I installed a Debian box and it is quite a bit easier to get
>  >  farther than with a Fedora Core box. I followed the directions
>  on:
>  >
>  http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=installing_evergreen_1.2_on_debian_etch_x86_32-bit
>  >
>  >  All went reasonably well until I got to:
>  >  su -c "createlang plperl evergreen" - postgres
>  >
>  >  which responded with:
>  >  createlang: language installation failed: ERROR:  could not
>  access
>  >  file "$libdir/plperl": No such file or directory
>  >
>  >  Now, the first time I tried, I'd installed from the DVD with
>  the
>  >  database server and webserver options, and I noticed it
>  installed
>  >  with postgres 7.4, so I wiped it out and tried again without
>  those
>  >  options, but it still put the 7.4 clients on the system.
>  >
>  >  apt-get remove postgresql-client didn't remove the 7.4 clients
>  >  apt-get install postgresql-8.1 did replace the 7.4 binaries
>  with
>  >  8.1
>  >
>  >  But now that this is my second install of 40r2 and I'm still
>  >  getting the same error I decided to stop there and ask for your
>  >  wisdom on the matter.
>
>  Hmm. If you ran into dependency problems with the install script,
>  then
>  it probably blocked the install of a number of other postgresql
>  packages, like postgresql-plperl-8.1
>
>  I wonder if there's an explicit install target that Bill and I
>  assumed
>  people would choose (like "dev-server") in the Debian install
>  process
>  that is resulting in this sort of problem.
>
>  We could update the Makefile.install to include these dependencies
>  and
>  include an explicit -8.1 suffix.
>
>  --
>  Dan Scott
>  Laurentian University
>
>



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