note runrig What does it say if you unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH and you run:<code> ldd /usr/perl5/5.16.2/lib/site_perl/5.16.2/sun4-solaris/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.so </code> <p>If the results point to locations that don't exist, then likely your DBD::Oracle was compiled on a different system where libraries were in a different place. Now you have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to specify where they are on your system.</p> <p>Update: Or compile DBD::Oracle on your current system so that the Oracle.so file knows where it's libraries are. On HP-UX you can use chatr to change the paths to libraries in a .so file...don't know if the same exists on solaris (don't think so). If you're really brave, maybe you can edit the paths in the .so binary yourself :-)</p> 1017474 1017474