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Some people have encountered bugs in GRAMPS Gramps which are due to the database not working goodwell.  Installing the lastest latest version of the [[Gramps_Glossary#bsddb|BSDDB ]] database tends to solve the problem. '''This guide is for version {{version}} of Gramps, for earlier versions, you need to manually change python files!''' == Why install the latest version ? ==Some errors have happened in the past outside of Gramps version 2.2.x, with the [[Category:Developers/GeneralDatabase_Backends#BSDDB_Backend|BSDDB database]]format Gramps used. See Bugs: {{bug|110}} and {{bug|814}}

== Why It can be expected that recompiling BSDDB could solve those problems. However, if BSDDB needs to be recompiled, one might as well install the latest version ? ==Some errors have happened in the past outside of GRAMPS, with the BSDDB database format GRAMPS uses. See eg:* http://bugs.gramps-project.org/view.php?id=1010* http://bugs.gramps-project.org/view.php?id=814

It can be expected that recompiling BSDDB could solve Furthermore, the people of PyBSDDB (the Python "bindings" project for the problem. However, Oracle Berkeley DB) recommend doing a local compile if the use of BSDDB needs to be recompiled, one can as well install the latest versionis critical.

Furthermore, the people of pybsddb recommond doing a local compile if the use of BSDDB is critical. For genealogists needing GRAMPS this Gramps, a stable database could certainly be considered truea critical need.

 Take a backup of your genealogical data before you do this. Remember, you should backup data of GRAMPS Gramps in .gramps format, and keep that somewhere save (GRDB format is NOT a good backup format!).

Go to http://www.oracle.com/technologytechnetwork/softwaredatabase/productsdatabase-technologies/berkeley-dbberkeleydb/dbdownloads/index.html and download latest libdb codewithout encryption (eg Berkeley DB 6.1.23.NC.tar.gz ), unpack. You need to create an Oracle ID for this, but it is OSS software. Read in the downloaded code the file docs/index.html on how to configure and make the code. For Linux, you need to into the dir <code>:  cd build_unix ../build_unix<dist/code> and configure, then compile with make, then do <code> sudo make install</code>.

Next, go to [http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm pybsddb] ([http://pybsddb.sourceforge.net ]).Download <code>the version compatible with the downloaded bsddb version, eg [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bsddb3-/5.1.1 bsddb3 5.1.1] is tested with 4.2 and 5.01.tar.gz</code> (version at the time of writing), unpack Unpack and go in the created directory. Run <code>python setup.py</code>, this should find your installed bsddb3 returning something like:

Found BerkeleyDB 4Berkeley DB 5.5 1 installation. include files in /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.45.51/include library files in /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.45.51/lib library name is libdb-45.51

Note: you need libpython2.5x-devel to buildthis, with x your version of python.You can test with python As a test.py, but that does not work on my AMD64run

=== Remove old BSDDB and replace with new === pythonNot so sure yet on how this works. I did the following:# Go into python directory: <pre >>cd /usr/lib/python2.5/</pre>import bsddb3# Move old version: <pre >>sudo mv bsddb bsddb_old</pre>bsddb3.__version__ '5.1.1'# Go where new version is installed: <pre >cd site-packages</pre># Move new version to correct name: <pre>sudo mv bsddb3 bsddb</pre># Restart the PC. This is needed to make sure the old db.version is out of the memory when you run gramps (parts are preloaded by python) (5, 1, a commonly used scripting language19).

You should and look for the line   ;;use-bsddb3=False Change this line into  use-bsddb3=True If you now have GRAMPS use start Gramps, bsddb3 will be used.  == See also ==*[[Database Formats]] - Gramps*[[Database Backends]] - user selectable beginning with the latest Gramps 5 version == External Link ==Information on BSDDB (Python "bindings" for Oracle Berkeley DB)*[http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm Jesus Cea - Official maintainers Site for BSDDB version]*[http://docs.python.org/library/bsddb.html bsddb — Interface to Berkeley DB library — Python v2.6.1 documentation]*[http://pybsddb.sourceforge.net/ref/intro/data. Test if all workshtml Berkeley DB Reference Guide: An introduction to data management] [[Category:Developers/General]]