Can't get PostgreSQL to run in Debian Lenny

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Published on 2010-05-18T11:39:44Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 11:51 UTC
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I'm trying to install PostgreSQL 8.3 on Debian Lenny (kernel 2.6.26-2-686) using the package manager:

sudo apt-get install postgresql-8.3 postgresql-client-8.3 postgresql-contrib-8.3 postgresql-common

When deploying the package postgresql-common, the following warning is displayed:

supported_versions: WARNING: Unknown Debian release: 5.0.4

I wonder if this is related to the problem I describe below.

Next I try to launch the database server but it doesn't have any effect, neither any logs are generated.

sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 start

Does anybody have a clue of what might be going on?

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