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Hi all, Thanks to everyone who responded last week about creating an installation workflow. I've got that mostly sorted out, and am on to the next stage. I thought it would be a simple matter to TAR up my pile of files. But as soon as I tried installing the package on a new server, I ran into trouble: my library server is a 64-bit machine, and the second server is 32-bits. I normally consider that information to be unimportant to daily life (read: I really don't know or usually care...). But to my surprise that seems to mean that the tarball from one doesn't work on the other. Is this a common problem? Is there a way around it? Are tarballs really mutually unintelligible? I don't generally recall seeing two versions of software being distributed. Is there a standard approach to dealing with this? It's just a pile of text (php, sql, html) and image files -- there's no compiled code of any sort. I would have thought it was sort of architecture-neutral. Except it seems that the packaging mechanism itself is a problem. I did check out the book Erik recommended: http://producingoss.com/ to see what it has to say about this matter; all it says is "Use Tar!" with no ambiguity about architecture. Is everyone in the world on 64-bit architecture except this one test server that I have access to? Any advice? Thanks! Ken -- Ken Irwin Reference Librarian Thomas Library, Wittenberg University