Chris Hill wrote: > I got past that stage! Try installing these: > > sudo apt-get install postgresql-server-dev-8.4 libpq-dev thanks, that moved me a long a bit. i don't recall doing this for 8.3/1.3 (i guess it was the regular distribution via apt-get??), is this listed someplace i missed? > See where that takes you... takes me to the interminable geos compile ;-)