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2012/01/15 - Change home page URL from the one shown below to http://www.oracle.com/products/database/berkeley-db/overview/ - Updated Slackware note for 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and 14.0, removed older 2009/02/19 - Changed home page URL from http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db.html to http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/ - Updated Slackware note for 12.0, 12.1, and 12.2, removed older than 11.0 - Updated download URLs with the new Oracle ones - Clarified the inscructions at the bottom a bit - Added 4.7.25 + 3 patches - Removed 4.3.29, 4.2.52, 4.1.25, and 4.0.14 Apr 24, 2007 - Changed home page URL from http://www.sleepycat.com/ to http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db.html - Added 4.5.20 + 2 patches Aug 4, 2006 - Added a 3rd patch for 4.1.25 - Added a 4th patch for 4.2.52 - Added a patch for 4.3.29 - 4.4.16 -> 4.4.20 + 4 patches - Only update the current PATH if it's not already in there Jan 7, 2006 - Updated Slackware notes for 10.2 - 4.3.28 -> 4.3.29 - Added 4.4.16 - Only run removepkg if it exists - Don't run find twice when you don't have to (find /foo, find /foo2 -> find /foo /foo2) - Minor updates to the 'get it noticed' part - Hit enter between applying each patch Jul 17, 2005 - Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>) - Rearranged options to shut up new version of find - Removed make, gcc, binutils, and fileutils links - Added 4.3.28 - Updated download URLs - Added md5sum verification of tarballs - Added 4 patches for 4.2.52 - Added a 2nd patch for 4.1.25 - Updated Slackware note for 10.0 and 10.1 - Updated the notes at the bottom Dec 23, 2003 - Updated notes about openldap and 4.0.x/4.1.x at the top - Create ~/installed with mode 700 - Added two configure options that Slack uses: --enable-compat185 and --enable-rpc - Added notes about the versions of db that Slack includes - Added 'removepkg db4' - Added some notes about the default prefix /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.X.X and /usr - Added a 3rd version, 4.2.52 - Added a patch for 4.1.25 Mar 28, 2003 - Fixed the "for everything to use" part for 4.0.14 and the download URL for 4.0.14 has changed (Thanks to Charles Bedrosian for letting me know) - Set to re-use existing tarballs before wget'ing Dec 31, 2002 - Updated the "Get db4 noticed" part Dec 30, 2002 - Updated db3 -> db4 instructions at bottom: Also back up /usr/bin/db_* instead of deleting them Back up /usr/lib/libdb.a too, replace it with a symlink to /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.0/lib/libdb.a - Added a 2nd set of instructions for db 4.1.25 (I'll remove 4.0.14 after I test 4.1.25 for a while) - Added removal of old tarballs and source dirs (old 4.0 ones in the 4.0 section, old 4.1 ones in the 4.1 section) Oct 17, 2002 - Updated instructions for replacing the Slack-installed db3 with this installation of db4