Thread: Installing 9.6 RC on Ubuntu

On 13/09/16 19:03, Steve Crawford 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.)

Define "No joy" - what happened? What errors or other messages did you get?

Ray.