How to install postgres 8.4 on Debian 5 (lenny)

Posted by Eric Bartels

Because I didn’t found this information in one place I’m writing this quick “guide” on how to install PostgreSQL 8.4.x on Debian 5.x “lenny”. Debian lenny stable packages are bundled with Postgres 8.3.x but thanks to Debian Backports the newer Postgres version is available for lenny. Simply do it Add the backports-sources (/etc/apt/sources.list) and update [...]

Fixing “error while loading shared libraries: libgssapi_krb5.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.”

Posted by Eric Bartels

One of my development systems is running on Debian Lenny (no this one does not host SharePoint). After update the system via apt-get update something went wrong and “core services” (samba, ssh) were out of order. It seems this is a bug in the packages provided by Debian. After struggling for a while a simple [...]