I really do think this may be just off-topic, although the context is my PHP scripting work so...maybe not. Since it's Sunday, I'll go for it here. If so, I'm happy to have any off-list assistance that one could offer. OS X.3.9 Apache 1.3.33 PHP 4.3.11 My desire is to install the GD image kit ( gd-2.0.33 ) but frankly I've spent a couple of weeks reading and being hesitant. [1] ImageMagick can work for me, too, but is less important for this current project. (I have both on my remote server.) Locally, I run the base OSX.3.9 Apache and PHP set-up. I am not serving to the world, just over localhost, for development before moving PHP scripts to my live server. I would like to install the GD image kit referenced above, but I am just not entirely sure, even after all this reading, what I need to do that won't fry my PHP or Apache set-up. Frankly, I'm not even sure if I _can_ do this, since I no longer have the development tools installed (I need 'make' right?) Would someone throw me a bone and help me over this hurdle? I have a URL Manager file filled with web bookmarks, all of which I've read, and which cumulatively have confounded me. (Not all that hard, actually.) -- Gary [1] Ideally, I'd like to get a number of image-based web tools up and running, so that I can test my PHP project against ImageMagick and GD locally, which I have been able to do on my remote server. libpng, libmng I have, but realized I was just piling Pelion upon Assa and need to just hold off on that.