Re: Need an older version of Perl on Debian for WebCT

[Jason Rennie <jrennie@csail.mit.edu>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 02:21:03PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> The problem is that (we are trying out sarge now) the perl version
> (5.8.3) cannot open the Berkeley database files of WebCT 3.8.  I
> suspect it needs perl 5.005 which is what is installed on the RH
> server at the moment.  Is there a way to have both perl 5.8.3 and
> 5.005 on the same machine?

Are you absolutely sure you have installed all the necessary packages?
Here are some packages that perl may need to read Berkeley DB files:

libberkeleydb-perl
libdbi-perl

Jason