I was a little mistane on how to go about linking to db4 for db185/dbm usage. Actually, do this: #include <db_185.h> LDFLAGS=-ldb Build-Depends: libdb4.0-dev If you are using dbm/ndbm interfaces, then just #include <db.h> and the rest is the same as above. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/