> On 18 Jul 2021, at 20:39, o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@???> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 12:47 AM wirelessduck--- via Dng
> <dng@???> wrote:
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>>>> On 18 Jul 2021, at 12:58, Gregory Nowak via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
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>>> On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 09:38:13PM -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
>>>> - - - - no mention of Beowulf and that means a - - - no go - - - - at least
>>>> as far as I can tell.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Bionic is based on buster, and therefore similar to Beowulf. If the
>>> repository has bionic, use bionic if installing on Beowulf.
>>>
>>> Greg
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>> Bionic is an Ubuntu release. You should be using buster-pgdg repository for postgresql apt as Devuan Beowulf is directly based on Debian Buster. Devuan has no direct relationship with Ubuntu.
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>> I use the buster-pgdg repositories for all of my postgresql installations, following the instructions on apt.postgresql.org but substituting the lsb_release part for “buster”
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>
> Thank you very much.
> I did not understand that I was to use 'Buster' in place of 'lsb_release' .
>
> Using 'lsb_release' is what caused the foobar.
>
> Regards

Yes that snippet is designed to make it easy to copy and paste so you they can provide one script to setup for all supported distros. As Devuan isn’t directly supported by pgdg repository we just have to make a small change to use the equivalent Debian release name.

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Tom