The lib directory was obvious (I hope), but then it asked for the "include" directory, but there isn't one.

Maybe you need to install the associated *-dev package, which should contain the include files ?

Include files are needed for compiling code that links against a certain library (in short, they contain the API definitions of the library, like function prototypes, constants, etc.), while they're not needed when just using an already built program.  For this reason, they are typically split out into a separate package.

In reply to Re: Getting a Perl connection to a Firebird2.1-classic database in Kubuntu 9.10 by almut
in thread Getting a Perl connection to a Firebird2.1-classic database in Kubuntu 9.10 by Steve_BZ

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