i'm in the process of installing: http://apr.apache.org/download.cgi apr-1.2.8 apr-util-1.2.8 apr-iconv-0.9.7.tar.gz http://www.outoforder.cc/projects/libs/apr_memcache/ apr_memcache-0.7.0 http://www.danga.com/memcached/ memcached-1.2.0 i've only installed apr and apr-util, but somehow apache got messed up during the process and now won't start: Starting httpd: /usr/sbin/httpd: error while loading shared libraries: libaprutil-0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory so i ran this: ldd /usr/sbin/httpd | grep libaprutil libaprutil-0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaprutil-0.so.0 (0x00500000) and had to create this: ln -s /usr/local/apr/lib/libaprutil-1.so.0 /usr/lib/libaprutil-0.so.0 same error. not sure what else to try at this point.