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If the db4 packages (db4 and db4-devel) are missing on the server it results in “version.c:30:16: error: db.h” error message while installing any package. The error looks like:

version.c:30:16: error: db.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [version.o] Error 1

See if the db4 packages are installed

# rpm -qa | grep db4-devel
 db4-4.2.52-7.3.el4
 db4-devel-4.2.52-7.3.el4

If the above commands returns nothing, you have to install the db4 and db4-devel packages. Search the packages using yum and it should list both of them:

# yum search db4

It will list both the db4 and db4-devel packages

db4.x86_64
db4-devel.x86_64

Now, install them

# yum install db4.x86_64
# yum install db4-devel.x86_64