[plug] debian - perl question.

[Patrick Tehvand]

Tony Breeds wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 01:04:40PM +0800, Patrick Tehvand wrote:
> 
>>From Perl on a redhat7.3 box creates and uses Berkeley hash files 
>>version 7, which is from Berkeley DB 3.
>>
>>All the db_ commands are aliased to db3_ commands.
>>
>>DB_File is 1.75.
>>
>>From Perl on a debian 3.0r2 box creates and uses Berkeley has files 
>>version 5, which is from Berkeley DB 2 or 1 (not sure, probably 1).
> 
> 
> Try installing the Berkley DB3 packages:
> ---
> tony at pythia:~$ apt-cache search db3
> db3-doc - Berkeley v3 Database Documentation [html]
> libdb3 - Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [runtime]
> libdb3++ - Berkeley v3 Database Libraries for C++ [runtime]
> libdb3++-dev - Berkeley v3 Database Libraries for C++ [development]
> libdb3-dev - Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [development]
> libdb3-tcl - Berkeley v3 Database Libraries for TCL [module]
> libdb3-util - Berkeley v3 Database Utilities
> python-bsddb3 - Python interface to libdb3
> ---
> 
> Use something like:
> dpkg -l '*db2*' | egrep ^ii
> 
> to work out which v2 libraries you currently have.
Yup. we already had the db3 packages. what it turned out to be was an 
old version of DB_File which I updated using CPAN. sigh.

Sorry, forgot to inform the list.

p.