All, I am tying to install php that will talk to the database I us (QM, a pick type database). As I am new to pdp don’t have much experience in figuring out what the qm_ext_build script is failing. Thanks for you help in advance. george I am trying to run following: root@dell350:/usr/qmsys/qmphp# ./qm_ext_build It is failing here with the message after the script. echo --- echo get the directory where PHP extension are stored echo --- EXTDIR=`php -i 2> /dev/null | grep -i "extension_dir" | cut -d" " -f3` if [ ! -d "$EXTDIR" ]; then echo -n -e "\n" echo ============================================================ echo You need to create the php extensions directory: echo $EXTDIR echo ============================================================ echo -n -e "\n" exit fi Error message follows, what does the no mean ? get the directory where PHP extension are stored ============================================================ You need to create the php extensions directory: /usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs no ============================================================ There is a directory which contains (I think) the compiled extensions. I am unsure where to go from here. Do I create a extension_dir and if so where do I put it and do I have to copy the file currently in 20090626+lfs to it. Also would have to, I believe, add the extension_dir to the php.ini file. Help would be appreciated. root@dell350:/usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs# ls -la total 1688 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 9 08:33 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Apr 8 08:20 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62936 Feb 10 08:31 curl.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 95596 Feb 10 08:31 gd.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20024 Feb 27 2010 idn.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 335288 Jun 1 2010 imagick.so