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I'm trying to move from 9.1.3 to 9.1.4. I thought all I had to do was "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade", but that didn't work. It did install some updates, but that was only for 9.1.3. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?

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apt-get will upgrade to the packages available in the repository from the source that apt is configured to use.

The postgresql-9.1 package is version 9.1.4 in the squeeze-backports repository.

Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.sources.list

deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main contrib non-free

Then run:

apt-get update && apt-get install postgresql-9.1

If you're Wheezy, 9.1 will already be available. If you're running a release prior to Squeeze then you should first concern yourself with upgrading to Squeeze.

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You will want to pass -t squeeze-backports to that install command. Backports priority is set to 100 by default. See backports-master.debian.org/Instructions – Faheem Mitha Aug 14 '12 at 6:02
@FaheemMitha: Normally yes, but in this case it's not necessary because squeeze doesn't have a postgresql-9.1 package. It's only available in backports and it's being requested explicitly so the backport is automatically selected. – bahamat Aug 14 '12 at 9:06
Sure, but the OP probably doesn't realise that this is a special case. In general it is preferable to quote commands in the form in which they will always work. – Faheem Mitha Aug 14 '12 at 9:09

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