Hi. I try to follow Alans kind instruction on http://www.zope.org/Members/alanpog/zmysqlda_steps I downloaded the source of everything. I used the source release of MySQL-3.22.25, because I ran into compile problems with newer versions. After configuring and making python I do a "make install" on the python source and after a while get following error: ./python /usr/local/lib/python1.5/compileall.py /usr/local/lib/python1.5 ./python: error in loading shared libraries: libmysqlclient.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory make: *** [libinstall] Error 127 What is the special problem here? Can you help me? What version of MySQL are you using? I have to run the latest MySQL-3.22.30 on my machine. Is that conflicting here? (I changed the path in Python-1.5.2/Modules/Setup to point to the 3.22.25 distributions mysql lib&include files....!) Oliver .. Oliver Wrede .. owrede@khm.de .. Academy of Media Arts, Cologne .. Peter-Welter-Platz 2 . 50676 Koeln, Germany .. http://www.khm.de .. ICQ# 6580315 .. PGP 6.0 Fingerprint: .. 922C FFA2 9A07 5B8E CB2A 10A2 C370 6A62 2232 196C