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I was installing postgresql on Ubuntu 12.04 (Digital Ocean droplet). The locale variables in my environment gets transported to the DO box.

When postgres is installed via apt-get install postgresql, it appears to succeed. However no default cluster is created, and postgresql is not added as a service. This happens silently. I realised what was going on when attempting to run pg_createcluster manually failed.

Some questions arising from this:

  • how can I be alerted that the install hooks aren't being run?

  • after fixing the locale, I removed (and purged) the postgresql package; however the default cluster still wasn't created. What was preventing this? How can I ensure that install hooks are being run?

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    Perhaps this person run into the same problem as you? They found and documented a solution.
    – Ezequiel Tolnay
    Commented Apr 13, 2016 at 8:01
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    Hi Ziggy, thanks for the link --- that's the same workaround I arrived at, but doesn't address the two questions I raise (regarding getting the install hooks to run, so I don't have to manually create the cluster).
    – Jean Jordaan
    Commented Apr 13, 2016 at 8:23
  • Maybe some error messages would help?
    – Fabrizio Mazzoni
    Commented Apr 13, 2016 at 10:14

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Install the package locales-all and your postgresql will start up.

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