Package install failed on ubuntu

[r-dbi]

Package install failed on ubuntu

[hadley]

Hmmmm, what version of libpq-dev do you have installed?

[jeroen]

His sessioninfo says precise so it's probably this one.

[jeroen]

Although, travis runs this same version of ubuntu and there we are not seeing this error. So maybe he uses a non-stock version.

[AlunHewinson]

Package: libpq-dev
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Installed-Size: 876
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Source: postgresql-9.1
Version: 9.1.15-0ubuntu0.12.04
Replaces: postgresql-dev
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libpq5 (= 9.1.15-0ubuntu0.12.04), libssl-dev, libkrb5-d
ev, comerr-dev
Suggests: postgresql-doc-9.1
Conflicts: postgresql-dev (<< 7.5)
Description: header files for libpq5 (PostgreSQL library)
 Header files and static library for compiling C programs to link
 with the libpq library in order to communicate with a PostgreSQL
 database backend.
 .
 PostgreSQL is an object-relational SQL database management system.
Homepage: http://www.postgresql.org/
Original-Maintainer: Martin Pitt <[email protected]>

[mbannert]

The old elephant has been taught quite a few new tricks in more recent versions... particularly with the NoSQL stuff like hstore and json. You could try upgrading to 9.3 ? but make sure to do it in test environment...

[AlunHewinson]

By "the old elephant", I take it you mean PostgreSQL (perhaps it's best to avoid jargony expressions like that, since it may confuse people with little experience of this type of thing, like me).

When running

sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib

Ubuntu tries to install v9.1; as I understand it, the above apt-get installs the latest version available to my operating system.
I'll admit to being out of my depth here. I don't know whether this is a fault in this package or not. If anybody else has something to contribute or you want me to test on my system, please let me know but don't assume any knowledge on my part.
Ubuntu is running on a virtual machine, so I can experiment and destroy and rebuild the machine if things go badly wrong.

[krlmlr]

Hm... I had no trouble installing it on Ubuntu 15.04.

[krlmlr]

Closing for now, please feel free to reopen.

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