Thanks for all help everyone, the "hack" to fix this was quite easy. I simply edited the SMARTY_DIR variable in functions_smarty.inc.php from 'Smarty/libs/' to 'Smarty/' so it would look in /usr/share/serendipity/www/bundled-libs/Smarty/Smarty.class.php instead of /usr/share/serendipity/www/bundled ...

Is there anything in the bundled-libs/ dir? Perhaps the package maintainer forgot to include the necessary files. There should be a Smarty/ dir, with a libs/ dir beneath it. The Smarty.class.php should be in there.

root@night:/usr/share/serendipity/www/bundled-libs# ls -alh
total 24K
drwxr-xr-x 6 ...

Sadly I don't maintain that package. Where is your "bundled-libs" directory located, actually?
My bundled-libs dir is located in "/usr/share/serendipity/www/bundled-libs" where the Ubuntu package left it. I'm not really familiar with Ubuntu/Debian packaging (I'm a ports guy) otherwise I would ...

Hello,

I recently decided to pull my serendipity blog off my FreeBSD server and give it a go on my new Ubuntu server. The server is running the 32bit version of Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid.

After running 'apt-get install serendipity" smoothly and setting up the database (using db-config, following with ...