I've finally gotten both of the boxes running okay again! Whew! I had to install each of the components manually and on the Debian box I recompiled Perl5.6 and MySQL from source (and copied .so files all over the place for the make test to succeed) but they're werking now quite happily. Thanks muchly helpful monks. TTFN & Shalom.

-PipTigger

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