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I am installing software and one of the dependencies is mod_perl, when i run 

  #perl Makefile.PL

I receive this error:

************* WARNING *************

Your Perl is configured to link against libgdbm,

but libgdbm.so was not found.

You could just symlink it to /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2.0.0

EDIT: I am using RHEL 5

HELP me???

JMeterX
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I ran into this issue awhile back, check to see if libgdbm is installed, if it is do the following to ensure its linked correctly:

Just noticed you said you were using RHEL5 same system I was using so these should work perfectly for you

ls -l /usr/lib/libgdbm.so*

It may look similar to this:

/usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2 -> libgdbm.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2.0.0

If so you can run this command to symlink 

cd /usr/lib
ln -s libgdbm.so.2.0.0 libgdbm.so

Then run the command again:

ls -l /usr/lib/libgdbm.so*

should look something like this:

/usr/lib/libgdbm.so -> libgdbm.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2 -> libgdbm.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2.0.0

Try to install again

JMeterX
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It's more helpful to give an idea of what kind of system you're talking about.

Just for grins, I'm going to guess Ubuntu Linux.

You could do exactly what it says: read the manpage for ln(1) for more details on symlinks, but:

 ln -s /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib/lbgdbm.so

might just fix your problem.

It might not, because there are so many other things that could affect this and you have not narrowed down the field much for us.

I would suspect that a better approach would be to use your system's native package manager, if my guess at ubuntu is correct, I think you want:

apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2

If the native package manager approach won't work for you, even more reason why you need to give more information and write a better question.

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