Re: HELP: PERL5 upgrade trouble

[Klaus Drews <klaus_drews@ngi.de>]

Hi,

this is a reply to an older message.
Question was, how to upgrade to perl5. Here is the answer from the perl5-base-package:

coma:/usr/src/packages# dpkg -i perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.deb 
(Reading database ... 53468 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking perl-5.005-base (from perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.deb) ...
This version of Perl is using the newer Berkeley DB 2 files.
They are incompatible with the Berkeley DB 1.85 files that
you have (probably) been using.

Please use perl-5.004 to work with these db's until you can
convert them over.

You can use Perl-5.004 to dump these databases and reload
them with Perl-5.005.
Or you can use db_dump185(1) and db_load(1) utilities that
come with the libc6 package.

Regards
KD