Khan, ld is failing to find the library. So either its not there, which is unlikely as long as you're using the right installation media, or it can't find it because the path its using is messed up. I do a lot of oracle installations and I generally find the best way to proceed is to do exactly what the official docs tell you to do *and no more*, at least in the first instance. They don't tell you to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64 so why don't you try unsetting them and seeing if it fixes the problem? Regards David Lord 2008/5/21 Khan, Muhammad S <Muhammad.Khan@xxxxxx>: > > Hi David, > > (a) Here are my relevant environment variables: > > MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/bin/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/openwin/man:/usr > /dt/man > PATH=/usr/vendor/oracle/client/9.2.0.6/bin:/usr/vendor/oracle/client/9.2 > .0.6/Apache/Apache/bin:/usr/vendor/oracle/client/9.2.0.6/OPatch:/usr/loc > al/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/lib:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr > /ccs/bin:/usr/sadm/admin/bin:/usr/ucb > ORACLE_BASE=/usr/vendor/oracle > LIBPATH=/opt/CA/UnicenterSoftwareDelivery/usd/lib:/opt/CA/SharedComponen > ts/lib > ORACLE_DOC=/usr/vendor/oracle/client/9.2.0.6/doc > TNS_ADMIN=/usr/vendor/oracle/client/9.2.0.6/network/admin > LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64=/usr/vendor/oracle/client/9.2.0.6/lib > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/vendor/oracle/client/9.2. > 0.6/lib > ORACLE_HOME=/usr/vendor/oracle/client/9.2.0.6 > > (b) I'm confused about your opinion of LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I've clearly > read at many places that it should be set to $ORACLE_HOME/lib to avoid > any error during install. > > Thanks, > Khan -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l