libdb4.8 is not available in Ubuntu 11.10

[cdnbcguy]

Hi - I can't install bitcoin 4 because the apt-get for libdb4.8++-dev says 'package libdb4.8++ is not available'

Also - didn't we have a warning not to use 4.8 because of compatibility issues? Also, shouldn't the apt-get be sudo?

I built the bitcoin-qt a while back and I'm glad to see the regular version switch over to QT, it's much better!

[cdnbcguy]

The version 5 works as well so if needed and the makefile is not using the BDB 5 edit the makefile.unix to change it close to what I have below reflecting the version in your distro do a search on the libdb_cxx-?.?.a file included in the -dev package for the exact name you need to replace with. And yes the apt-get should be sudo, the warning was about using a higher version of the BDB say like version 5 then trying to use the wallet.dat on a version compiled with version 4 they are not backward compatible..

Code:

LIBS= -dead_strip \
 $(DEPSDIR)/lib/libdb_cxx-5.1.a \

Sorry about the delay. Got it. The new client sure is pretty, thanks for that, and your help.