berkeley db installation error message on Suse 10
 

Hi all,

I'm a noob trying to install Berkeley DB 4.4.16 on SuSE 10.0 OSS. Following the instructions I type: dist/configure, but I get the error message:

configure: error: Berkeley DB should not be built in the top-level or dist directories.

I only want to install this so I can install the KDE binary newsreader.


Any help would be much appreciated,

Gilbert

so you've untarred the tarball and did a cd into the extracted directory. make a dummy directory in the extracted directory and cd there.

ex.
tar -xzvf db-4.4.16.tar.gz
cd db-4.4.16
mkdir dummy
cd dummy
../configure
make
su
<enter root password>
make install

Who Hooooo thanks MegaSpaz... I've been looking for an answer to this. Your fix worked great for me.

Later
Eric

Apologies for the late thanks MegaSpaz...
 

...I've just come back from an RPM dependencies trip.

Gilbertt