[Xastir] libdb error?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Tom Russo wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:25:33PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kevin.paetzold at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>> There are also libdb issues with xastir on fedora 18.  It seems to be for
>> the same reasons as listed in this thread (no db4.2 etc...).  I was about
>> to send a message to the list about this when I first saw this thread.  The
>> net obvious result (to me) is that internet map caching is disabled.
>> Otherwise xastir works well on Fedora 18,
>>
>> Would it work (for xastir)  for find a source tarball for libdb4.2 etal and
>> build them in /usr/local.
>
> It might, as long as you make sure not to conflict with the 5.x install.
> As long as you build and install into /usr/local/ instead of /usr, that should
> be no problem.
>
> The long term solution, of course, is to get Xastir working properly with 5.x.
> If anyone cares to help...
>
>> Btw, I have already spent about 30 mins looking
>> for the sources for this and have not found them yet.
>
> http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.2.52.tar.gz
>
> This is where FreeBSD pulls bdb42 for its "db42" package.

Why not 4.5 or 4.8?

I"m running 4.8 on this OpenSUSE-12.1 system.

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