thanx sol. u were right LD_LIBRARY_PATH was not set, after setting this variable everything was working fine. thanx once gain On 7/30/05, sol beach <sol.beach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >"sqlplus: error while loading shared libraries : linclntsh.so > typographical error? > libclntsh.so? > # dbupdate > # slocate libclnt > What's the result of the two commands above > I suspect that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set or does not include > $ORACLE_HOME/lib > -- Thanks & Regards, T. Onkar Nath OneAPPS Enterprise Technology Pvt. Ltd. to_onkar@xxxxxxxxx onkarnath.tiwary@xxxxxxxxx