Debian apt install and PostgreSQL version

[Nick-Nal]

Greetings

I recently switched to Debian 12.1 and installed latest PostgreSQL 16.0, latest PostGIS 3.4.0 (as postgresql-16-postgis-3 package) on it.

Now, I wanted to install osm2pgsql from bookworm-backports, but the list of required dependencies is holding me back a little:

I don't really want to install whole PostgreSQL 15 and separate postgresql-15-postgis-3 package as newer versions of them are already installed.

Is there a way to avoid it? Or maybe I should wait newer version of osm2pgsql with updated dependencies.

Thanks in advance.

[ImreSamu]

Hi Nick-Nal,

try apt install --no-install-recommends osm2pgsql

test:

$ docker run -it --rm  debian:12 bash -c "apt-get update && apt install --no-install-recommends osm2pgsql"

Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease [151 kB]
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease [52.1 kB]
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease [48.0 kB]
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages [8906 kB]
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates/main amd64 Packages [6432 B]
Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main amd64 Packages [63.2 kB]
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Reading package lists... Done
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The following additional packages will be installed:
  ca-certificates libboost-filesystem1.74.0 libbrotli1 libcurl3-gnutls libdeflate0 libexpat1 libgssapi-krb5-2 libjbig0 libjpeg62-turbo libk5crypto3 libkeyutils1 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0
  libldap-2.5-0 liblerc4 liblua5.3-0 libncursesw6 libnghttp2-14 libnsl2 libpq5 libproj25 libpsl5 libpython3-stdlib libpython3.11-minimal libpython3.11-stdlib libreadline8 librtmp1
  libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules-db libsqlite3-0 libssh2-1 libssl3 libtiff6 libtirpc-common libtirpc3 libwebp7 media-types openssl proj-data python3 python3-certifi python3-chardet
  python3-charset-normalizer python3-idna python3-minimal python3-pkg-resources python3-psycopg2 python3-pyosmium python3-requests python3-six python3-urllib3 python3.11 python3.11-minimal
  readline-common
Suggested packages:
  krb5-doc krb5-user proj-bin python3-doc python3-tk python3-venv python3-setuptools python-psycopg2-doc python3-shapely pyosmium-doc python3-cryptography python3-openssl python3-socks
  python-requests-doc python3-brotli python3.11-venv python3.11-doc binutils binfmt-support readline-doc
Recommended packages:
  krb5-locales libldap-common libgpm2 publicsuffix libsasl2-modules postgis
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ca-certificates libboost-filesystem1.74.0 libbrotli1 libcurl3-gnutls libdeflate0 libexpat1 libgssapi-krb5-2 libjbig0 libjpeg62-turbo libk5crypto3 libkeyutils1 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0
  libldap-2.5-0 liblerc4 liblua5.3-0 libncursesw6 libnghttp2-14 libnsl2 libpq5 libproj25 libpsl5 libpython3-stdlib libpython3.11-minimal libpython3.11-stdlib libreadline8 librtmp1
  libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules-db libsqlite3-0 libssh2-1 libssl3 libtiff6 libtirpc-common libtirpc3 libwebp7 media-types openssl osm2pgsql proj-data python3 python3-certifi python3-chardet
  python3-charset-normalizer python3-idna python3-minimal python3-pkg-resources python3-psycopg2 python3-pyosmium python3-requests python3-six python3-urllib3 python3.11 python3.11-minimal
  readline-common
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[Nick-Nal]

Oh, forgot about that option, thanks, worked great