Hi, in fighting a OGR bug I've updated the installed versions of PROJ.4 and GDAL on the adhoc VM to the latest semi-official packages from the DebianGIS stack on backports.org. "new" versions: gdal 1.5.4-4~bpo50+2 proj 4.6.1-5~bpo50+1 just in case anyone needs to rebuild anything, Hamish ps- postgres 8.3 package is still broken there.