On Thursday 30 June 2011, Patrick Valsecchi wrote: > Seems like a dependencies hell. OK, I'll go another route, then: > upgrade to squeeze. Thanks for your help. Maybe it is just http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542007 ? In this case using the squeeze package could work. There is also mod_authn_dbd/mod_dbd shipped with apache2. These also support mysql but I don't know if that is going to help you.