Mandrake Linux 9: Why isn't bsddb working?

[Dfenestr8]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:26:49 +0000, Skip Montanaro wrote:

> 
>     >> What might I have done wrong, and/or what should I do to fix it? 
> 
>     Skip> You probably don't have the necessary -devel RPM installed.
> 
>     >> That might have been true while I was using the rpm package.
> 
>     >> But currently I'm using the source package Python-2.3.tgz.
> 
> Doesn't matter.  The _bsddb module can't be built if the relevant header
> files and libraries are not in place.
> 
> Skip

The rpm -devel package just won't install unless it detects I have python
itself installed as an rpm. And I kind of like the version of IDLE that
comes with Python 2.3, so I'd rather keep it. (Also, I'm not completely
sure how to uninstall it. "make uninstall" doesn't work).

So is there no way I can get the correct header files from source?