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Ruby Installing a Ruby on Rails Development Environment in Ubuntu

Posted by billwerba
billwerba
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Errors with Installing PostgreSQL

I've followed the instructions for Installing PostgreSQL, but when the install command is entered I get the following:

Setting up postgresql-common (175.pgdg14.04+1) ... /usr/share/postgresql-common/supported-versions: 3: /etc/os-release: OS: not found dpkg: error processing package postgresql-common (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of postgresql-9.5: postgresql-9.5 depends on postgresql-common (>= 158~); however: Package postgresql-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package postgresql-9.5 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of postgresql: postgresql depends on postgresql-9.5; however: Package postgresql-9.5 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package postgresql (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of postgresql-contrib-9.5: postgresql-contrib-9.5 depends on postgresql-9.5 (= 9.5.3-1.pgdg14.04+1); however: Package postgresql-9.5 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package postgresql-contrib-9.5 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconNo apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already figured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of postgresql-contrib: postgresql-contrib depends on postgresql-contrib-9.5; however: Package postgresql-contrib-9.5 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package postgresql-contrib (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ... Errors were encountered while processing: postgresql-common postgresql-9.5 postgresql postgresql-contrib-9.5 postgresql-contrib E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

So you can see there is a problem, but not sure how to solve it. As I am using the Ubuntu 14.04 based Zorin 9 Linux.