in a fresh debian-unstable, it seems as though a lot of packages depend on libexpat.so.0. these include: libapache-mod-perl php4 and possibly lots of others I have lost track of. libexpat.so.0 isn't delivered by any current package AFAIK. So I've been recompiling these things. recompile using current libexpat.so.1 and libdb3 works just fine... G'day, eh? :) - Teunis Peters