Ok guys, don't throw any rotten tomatoes at me here... I know this is a SUN Microsystems forum and I know Solaris beats the pants off of AIX and IBM Mainframe MVS stuff, but I'm a computer science college student and I was trying to use my awesome OpenSolaris 2008.05 box of all-empowering SUN UNIX power to connect to an evil, dastardly, IBM System Z mainframe running IBM's proprietary Z/OS operating system for academic type stuff (booooo, hisssss, I know).
Anyway, to connect to an IBM Z-series mainframe, you need a 3270 terminal emulator, like maybe x3270 (see link below): http://x3270.bgp.nu/ and lo and behold, I was very pleased to see that there were IPS packages for the x3270 terminal emulator at the always awesome blastwave website when I ran this command (copied and pasted below): jack at solarisunix:~# pkg search -r x3270 INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE basename file opt/csw/bin/x3270 pkg:/IPSx3270 at 0.5.11-2.6 Eureka!!! I'm starting to get a warm and fuzzy feeling inside. Now to see if it installs: robert at solarisunix:~# pkg install IPSx3270 DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB) Completed 6/6 613/613 26.15/26.15 PHASE ACTIONS Install Phase 4416/4416 PHASE ITEMS Reading Existing Index 8/8 Indexing Packages 6/6 No problems there. So I check to see if it's there and then I create a softlink from somewhere in my path (like /usr/gnu/bin) to the place in /opt/csw where Blastwave installs stuff: jack at solarisunix:~# ls -l /opt/csw/bin/x3270 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 482456 2008-11-07 23:44 /opt/csw/bin/x3270 jack at solarisunix:~# echo $PATH /usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin jack at solarisunix:~# ln -s /opt/csw/bin/x3270 /usr/gnu/bin/mainframe jack at solarisunix:~# ls -l /usr/gnu/bin/mainframe lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2008-11-07 23:49 /usr/gnu/bin/mainframe -> /opt/csw/bin/x3270 No problems so far. No let's try to run it: jack at solarisunix:~# mainframe ld.so.1: x3270: fatal: libXaw.so.5: open failed: No such file or directory Killed YIKES!!!! I tried running it without the softlink and got the same error. Does anybody know what libXaw.so.5 is and why I need it for an x3270 mainframe terminal emulator and why it's missing from OpenSolaris 2008.04? Thanks, Robert -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
