Please note that the examples included in this package cannot be built as they are shipped. The examples are designed by upstream to be built as part of the complete build. In order to build the examples, please use this sequence of commands ('$' represents the command prompt): $ cd /tmp $ apt-get source mysql++ $ sudo apt-get build-dep mysql++ $ cd mysql++- $ fakeroot debian/rules build-arch At the completion of the last step, the examples will have been built and will reside in the current working directory. Look for the ELF executables with names corresponding to the .cpp files in the examples/ directory.