Why is the repo seemingly locked at version 5.3 of Berkley DB when current versions are well past 12?
https://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/berkeleydb/html/changelog_6_0.html
New Features in 6.0.19 Fixed bugs when attempting to open non-DB files as if they were databases. If encryption was active, an assertion failure would occur. If encryption was not active, the error message "BDB0178 Encrypted database: no encryption flag" would incorrectly imply that a password was required. [#21408]
I need to get to at least version 6.0.19 to do some work with Gnu COBOL. I don't want to have the problems someone else had with Ubuntu install 5.3 libraries then trying to install a higher version.
Is there a PPA if the official repos are going to be many years out of date?
No, this isn't a duplicate.This also isn't just one package. You can't reliably just install the newer version when things have been built against the incredibly outdated 5.3. There are other sites on the Web talking about all of the issues resulting from that. You might get "some" things to work, but not all.
That image isn't even all of them.
