xindy for i386 broken?

["Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net>]

Is anyone successfully running the xindy index generator on an i386
system?

I desire to use xindy to prepare indexes for LaTeX documents.  I am
running Lenny and TeXLive on an i386.

I have downloaded the documentation and version 2.2 release candidate
2 of the LaTeX Companion xindy files from www.xindy.org.  

I also obtained from
http://people.dedian.org/~agmartin/debian-store/xindy/ a Debian
package for xindy 2.1.4.  

But I have not been successful running the xindy tutorial on either of
the packages, and searches with Google indicate that others have
received the same error messages I have received with each package.

I joined the xindy discussion list on sourceforge.net and have sent
several messages, but I have not received any messages from the list,
other than the welcome message.

Is xindy alive or dead?  Is there any hope for a Debian xindy package
for Lenny?