The PRepS Tools package contains a tool called prepsdb_tool that is used to create and update PRepS databases. This package also contains libpreps. libpreps is a library that contains routines used by the database server. libPRepS only needs to be installed on the machine where the PRepS database(s) reside. For more information see: WWW: http://webpages.charter.net/stuffle/linux/preps/preps.html