Morten Brekkevold morten.brekkevold@uninett.no writes:
I'm trying to install nav on ubuntu 9.04 and this fails cause of 2 (only 2) dependency failures. a) python < 2.5. 9.04 has python 2.6. b) postgress = 8.1. Ubuntu has postgres 8.3
Is it necessary to pin these 2 dependency versions ? I have knowledge of python but I'd assume that 2.6 is good enough against 2.5 source code. Same goes for postgres.
This is not necessary for NAV, but the Debian package itself only supports python 2.4 (it installs library modules directly to /usr/lib/python2.4/...).
I'm not sure whether the package contains any specific dependency to PostgreSQL 8.1, but NAV works fine on 8.3 for us.
Morten Werner Forsbring (the Debian package maintainer) is currently working on a revised package for Debian Lenny, but I'm not up-to-date on the status of this work. Care to comment, Werner?
I think the package for Lenny is ready, but I miss an hour or so to document and test the upgrade path from Etch a few more times (pg_upgradecluster does not preserve per database configuration parameters, ref. [1]).
So please try this apt-source (which supports more versions of Python and PostgreSQL 8.3):
deb http://pkg-nav.alioth.debian.org/debian lenny-test local
The package will be moved to the lenny-archive on pkg-nav.alioth.debian.org when documentation after _some_ more testing (will be announced on nav-users).
- Werner