diff --git a/general/prog/python.xml b/general/prog/python.xml
index 3910c8ff4c..335e8cf1b8 100644
--- a/general/prog/python.xml
+++ b/general/prog/python.xml
@@ -66,16 +66,15 @@
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
 
-    <!-- replaced with seds
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required Patch</bridgehead>
     <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
       <listitem>
         <para><ulink
-        url="&patch-root;/Python-&Python-version;-gdbm-1.patch"/></para>
+        url="&patch-root;/Python-&Python-version;-bdb_4.8-1.patch"/></para>
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
 
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Patch</bridgehead>
+    <!-- <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Patch</bridgehead>
     <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
       <listitem>
         <para><ulink
@@ -126,6 +125,7 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>sed -i "s/ndbm_libs = \[\]/ndbm_libs = ['gdbm', 'gdbm_compat']/" \
      setup.py &amp;&amp;
+patch -Np1 -i ../Python-&Python-version;-bdb_4.8-1.patch &amp;&amp;
 
 ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
@@ -137,7 +137,8 @@ make</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
 
-<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
+chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>There is no documentation installed using the instructions above.
     See the <filename>Doc/README.txt</filename> file in the source
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index d54287a564..c29f9337f3 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>March 7th, 2010</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[randy] - Added a patch to the Python instructions so that it
+          is compatible with Berkeley-DB-4.8.26.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[randy] - Updated to Berkeley-DB-4.8.26.</para>
         </listitem>