Hi Peter, (Switching my email address from catherine.tran@disa.mil to jltttran@yahoo.com). I 'pkgadd -d' a few more pkgs that you suggested (see below). After downloading (blastwave.org) sparc/5.9/emacs-21.4 and its dependencies and pkgadd -d them in the order of the dependencies, it builds me emacs executable /opt/csw/bin/emacs-21.4. Invoking this '/opt/csw/bin/emacs-21.4 &' give me the following error: ld.so.1: emacs-21.4: fatal: libm.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory Killed bash-2.05# bash-2.05# uname -a SunOS Rockets 5.9 Generic_118558-33 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880 bash-2.05# ls -la emacs* -rwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 5591108 Sep 21 2005 emacs -rwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 5591108 Sep 21 2005 emacs-21.4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 17372 Sep 21 2005 emacsclient bash-2.05# bash-2.05# pwd /opt/csw/bin bash-2.05# 'emacsclient' seems to work, so I am wondering that 1 of 2 things can happen. Either (1) I am so close to getting it to work but my invocation path is incorrect or (2) it;s not working, could be missing some libraries or other dependencies. I've 'pkgadd -d' all of the pkgs I can think of including SUNWjpg SUNWlibm SUNWpng SUNWTiff SUNWTOO SUNWxwhl SUNWxwinc SUNWXWPLT SUNWXWRTL SUNWarc just to name a few from /var/sadm/pkg. Or something is not built correctly. Any idea as to what is wrong and what else I can try at this point? Appreciate your input. -Catherine ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather