Mandrake Linux 9: Why isn't bsddb working?

[Dfenestr8]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:47:53 +0000, Skip Montanaro wrote:

> 
>     >>>> import bsddb
>     >> Traceback (most recent call last):
>     >>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>     >>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/bsddb/__init__.py", line 40, in ?
>     >>     import _bsddb
> 
>     >> What might I have done wrong, and/or what should I do to fix it? 
> 
> You probably don't have the necessary -devel RPM installed.
> 
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> Skip

That might have been true while I was using the rpm package.

But currently I'm using the source package Python-2.3.tgz.