The releases for sparc-sun-solaris have been compiled on systems with ALL applicable patches applied. This has had the effect of requiering that /usr/lib/libresolv.so.2 exists. If you already have libresolv.so.2 you should have no problems. If not, you can either apply one of Sun's patches (recomended): If you have Solaris 2.4: 102479-02 Solaris 2.5: 103667-01 Solaris 2.5.1: 103663-01 , or you can make a symbolic link from libresolv.so.1: ln -s /usr/lib/libresolv.so.1 /usr/lib/libresolv.so.2 this is NOT recomended. /grubba@infovav.se