Greetings, And having just looked through the 3.8.4 files in /install_misc/ubuntu*.packages, I have realized my patches didn't make it into the 3.8.X stream. I'll have to bug report and do a 3.8.X specific bug patch (they are in 3.6.7)... But that aside. As I was just chatting with tcohen on IRC, he reminded me that yaz3 was the problem. I actually finished looking at the ubuntu.packages file and installed these: $ sudo apt-get install apache2 daemon gettext mysql-server libmysqlclient18 yaz yaz-doc libyaz4 libyaz4-dev idzebra-2.0 idzebra-2.0-common idzebra-2.0-doc idzebra-2.0-utils libidzebra-2.0-0 $ sudo apt-get install libidzebra-2.0-dev libidzebra-2.0-mod-alvis libidzebra-2.0-mod-grs-marc libidzebra-2.0-mod-grs-regx libidzebra-2.0-mod-grs-xml libidzebra-2.0-mod-text $ sudo apt-get install libidzebra-2.0-modules libxml2-utils You only need gcc and make if you need CPAN to install something that is missing. However, I didn't get anything missing. And speaking of yaz. If you really want to get yaz and zebra from the source, check out: http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/yaz/ubuntu/README (change intrepid to the release you have and goodness browse around the site while you're there). You can always add indexdata's repository. Though, it isn't necessary. GPML, Mark Tompsett