Hi! Let me repeat my question from IRC here, too... I installed HaskellDB and all the necessary stuff (I hope) as local (not system-wide) packages: $ ghc-pkg list /usr/lib/ghc-6.4.1/package.conf: rts-1.0, base-1.0, haskell98-1.0, template-haskell-1.0, unix-1.0, Cabal-1.0, parsec-1.0, haskell-src-1.0, network-1.0, QuickCheck-1.0, HUnit-1.1, mtl-1.0, fgl-5.2, X11-1.1, HGL-3.1, stm-1.0, readline-1.0, (lang-1.0), (concurrent-1.0), (posix-1.0), (util-1.0), (data-1.0), (text-1.0), (net-1.0), (hssource-1.0) /home/wferi/.ghc/i386-linux-6.4.1/package.conf: NewBinary-0.1, Crypto-3.0.3, (Cabal-1.0), Cabal-1.1.4, hsql-1.7, hsql-mysql-1.7, haskelldb-0.9, plugins-1.0, haskelldb-dynamic-0.9, haskelldb-hsql-0.9, haskelldb-hsql-mysql-0.9 Still, DBDirect doesn't run: $ ~/haskell/installed/bin/DBDirect Test mysql server=myserver,db=test,uid=wferi,pwd=secret DB/Direct: Daan Leijen (c) 1999, HWT (c) 2003-2004, Bjorn Bringert (c) 2005 Connecting to database... DBDirect: user error (Couldn't load Database.HaskellDB.HSQL.MySQL.driver from package haskelldb-hsql-mysql-0.9) strace -eopen shows it reads /usr/lib/ghc-6.4.1/package.conf only, not the local one... Any ideas how to persuade it to use the locally installed packages? -- Thanks, Feri.