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I am trying to install Postgresql on my Lucid 10.0.4 LTS system.

Ironically, a few months ago, I built, installed and run PG9.1 from sources on my machine, as a test. Since I will be deploying my app on a server that runs 8.4, I decided to install 8.4 on my local machine as well to test my app.

I followed the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostgreSQL

here is output from my screen:

me@localhost:~$ sudo -u postgres psql postgres
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
    Is the server running locally and accepting
    connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

I then tried 

sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start

The postgres server failed to launch so I then tried to manually start postmaster.

Here are the results:

me@localhost:~$ postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
postmaster: command not found

What am I doing wrong?!

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This has been solved by completely uninstalling PG from my machine and reinstalling it ... – Homunculus Reticulli Dec 20 '11 at 9:51
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