I'm not sure what form libodbc takes, but if it has C source and is built into an actual C library, then you need a third package: libodbc-dev, which would contain the headers and libs necessary to build apps that use libodbc. -Jim --- Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key as Laney College CIS admin: jim@laney.edu http://www.laney.edu/~jim/ as Debian developer: jwl@debian.org http://www.debian.org/~jwl/