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  • "the owner of the all the directories and files in the error message is postgres" Just glancing at my own install (9.1 on Ubuntu 12.04), root owns /usr/lib/postgresql and everything downstream of it.
    – Mike Sherrill 'Cat Recall'
    Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 1:56
  • Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/2748607/… or stackoverflow.com/questions/11874754/… ; please read those questions
    – Craig Ringer
    Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 2:15
  • I had already tried both solutions mentioned in the questions linked by Ringer. I installed postgresql 9.2 from "add-apt-repository ppa:pitti/postgresql" using "aptitude install postgresql-9.2" and before that installation I had tried every possible way I found in google. My mistake for posting this in the wrong forum. I'm defeated and this question can be deleted.
    – cancerballs
    Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 7:43