Sorry, forgot to say I'm using RH9. See item 4) Section 'KNOWN PROBLEMS' of the INSTALL.html that comes with the DBD-mysql-2.9003.tar.gz package. (I couldn't get it to install thru CPAN at all!!)

Incidentally, I had trouble installing Lingua::Stem.PM thru CPAN again because of malformed UTF-8 characters. UTF-8 seems to be the default on RH8&9