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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com>
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Subject: Re: postgresql-9.4 installation fails on debian wheezy
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 16:07:02 +0000
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inoyonartlover@googlemail.com writes:
> hi there! :)
>
> in my file:
>
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/postgres.list
>
> I got:
>
> deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ wheezy-pgdg main
>
> after the installation process I have to enter:
>
> pg_createcluster 9.4 main -start
>
> but the answer is:
>
> Creating new cluster 9.4/main ...
>   config /etc/postgresql/9.4/main
>   data   /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main
>   locale en_US.UTF-8
> Flags of /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main set as -------------e-C
> could not change directory to "/etc/apt/sources.list.d": Permission denied
> initdb: could not look up effective user ID 104: Permission denied
> Error: initdb failed
>
> os is debian wheezy
>
> what can I do?

Try this again as root?