Re: [exim] Re: Cannot open exim_dbmbuild database in perl

Daniel Tiefnig wrote:
>
> There are two possibilities now:
>
> a) Re-Install the module via CPAN shell. (You'll have to do this every
> time when applications that use the Berkeley-DB libraries get updated on
> the system. Berkeley-DB is known to change its interfaces everytime you
> look away from it, heh.)
>
> b) Un-Install the module via CPAN shell and install the
> libberkeleydb-perl debian package, so BerkeleyDB.so gets updated with
> your systems libraries when you run apt-get upgrade automatically.

(b) is strongly recommended on a debian system. You should always
prefer debian packages over third-party binaries, particularly for
shared libraries that debian packages will be linking to.

- Marc