How to install postgresql-8.4?

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Published on 2013-06-18T09:41:39Z Indexed on 2013/07/01 16:29 UTC
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pitti/postgresql
# ... OK

sudo apt-get install postgresql-8.4 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package postgresql-8.4 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'postgresql-8.4' has no installation candidate

Should I download it from http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/postgresql-8.4 and manually install all the dependencies?

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