Mandrake Linux 9: Why isn't bsddb working?

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:04:15 -0400, Dfenestr8 wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:26:49 +0000, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
> 
>>     >> What might I have done wrong, and/or what should I do to fix it?
>> 
>>     Skip> You probably don't have the necessary -devel RPM installed.
>> 
>>     >> That might have been true while I was using the rpm package.
>> 
>>     >> But currently I'm using the source package Python-2.3.tgz.
>> 
>> Doesn't matter.  The _bsddb module can't be built if the relevant
>> header files and libraries are not in place.
>> 
>> Skip
> 
> The rpm -devel package just won't install unless it detects I have
> python itself installed as an rpm. And I kind of like the version of
> IDLE that comes with Python 2.3, so I'd rather keep it. (Also, I'm not
> completely sure how to uninstall it. "make uninstall" doesn't work).

Skip is talking about the devel RPMs for bsddb.  For instance, do you
have db3-devel installed?  Or db4-devel?  On RedHat 7, the default bsd db
is db3-3.2.9.  You would need db3-devel installed to get the bsddb module
built.

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