[Spambayes] Installation difficulties / SuSE/KMail/IMAP

[Olli J. Marttila]

Please, help!

I am at loss with installing spambayes. I have tried to get 
it installed innumerable hours in two weeks. Sigh...

OS: SuSE Linux, version 8.2 Personal. 
IMAP protocol (kolumbus.fi)
Python 2.3.2 (#1, Oct 23 2003, 00:59:25) 
[GCC 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)] on linux2
Spambayes-1.0a6
Mail programme: KMail


1. I downloaded spambayes-1.0a6.1.tar.gz and detarred it in 
directory /downloads/spambayes-1.0a6 as root.

2. In that directory I run ./setup.py install. Thereafter I 
deleted the directory in question, again as root. 

3. I opened X window as marttila and run 
'/usr/local/bin/sb_imapfilter.py -b' 
with the following result message:

--<snip>--

SpamBayes IMAP Filter Beta1, version 0.1 (September 2003),
using SpamBayes IMAP Filter Web Interface Alpha2, version 
0.02 and engine SpamBayes Beta2, version 0.2 (July 2003).

You do not have a dbm module available to use.  
You need to either use a pickle (see the FAQ), use Python 
2.3 (or above), or install a dbm module such as bsddb (see 
http://sf.net/projects/pybsddb).

--<snip>--

What does this mean? I _have_ Python 2.3 installed, as seen 
above. 
I also have installed Berkeley DB, version 4.1.2.5 and 
bsddb3-4.1.6, just in case ...

Building bsddb3 ('python setup.py build') seemed to go 
through without any complaints. However 'python test.py' 
complained about ImportError: libdb-4.1.so: cannot open 
shared object file: No such file or directory.

However, 'locate libdb-4.1.so' tells that the library in 
question is in the directory 
/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.1/lib/.

Whatever I do, the only result of my installation attempts 
is the above message complaining about a missing dbm 
module. 

Am I dumb - inexperienced I am, sure - as so many seem to 
have succeeded in installing Spambayes - or is there 
something missing from the installation directions?

Olli J. Marttila