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With some luck you might be able to build GDBM_File with an older perl. Just obtain the ext/GDBM_File directory from a newer perl, and try
perl Makefile.PL make test make install

in that directory ("make install" might need root privs)

Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.
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