Re: what Linux to run

On 03/03/2012 10:33, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote:
>  Lørdag 3. mars 2012 01.43.29 skrev Gavin Flower :
>
>> I think if you are going to select a member of the Debian family, I
>> would strongly recommend Debian itself. I have the impression that the
>> Debian community is more serious about quality than Canonical (the
>> company behind Ubuntu).
>
> I haven't run Debian for ten years, when I had a headless old PC running with
> a LAMP stack. Since I discovered Gentoo, that has been my preferred distro.
> However, I'm currently in the process of setting up a dedicated Web server
> with Debian as it may one day be another person's responsibility to admin this
> box, and I would consider it cruel to leave a Gentoo box to anyone but the
> most devoted Linux fans.
>
> My current gripe is this: The «stable» version of Postgres on Debian is 8.4.
> In order to install 9.1, I added this line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
>
> Then I did an apt-get update and
>
> apt-get install postgresql-9.1 postgresql-client-9.1
>
> Finally I commented out the added line of /etc/apt/sources.list.
>
> This seems a rather roundabout way, is there a better one?

You can get Postgres 9.1 from backports.debian.org:

deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main

Ray.


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