hi All, i've installed lxml using pip for python3, but when i try to: "from lxml import etree", it failed with an exslt symbol not found: : [lab146]# p3 : Python 3.2.3 (default, Nov 21 2012, 18:28:16) : [GCC 4.5.2] on sunos5 : Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. : >>> import lxml : >>> from lxml import etree : Traceback (most recent call last): : File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> : ImportError: ld.so.1: python3: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/lib/python3.2/site-packages/lxml/etree.so: symbol exsltStrXpathCtxtRegister: referenced symbol not found : [lab146]# lsf /usr/lib/*xslt* : /usr/lib/libexslt.so@ /usr/lib/libxslt.so@ /usr/lib/llib-lexslt /usr/lib/llib-lxslt : /usr/lib/libexslt.so.0* /usr/lib/libxslt.so.1* /usr/lib/llib-lexslt.ln /usr/lib/llib-lxslt.ln : [lab146]# ll /usr/lib/*xslt* : lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 15 16:22 /usr/lib/libexslt.so -> ./libexslt.so.0 : -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 134792 Oct 15 16:22 /usr/lib/libexslt.so.0 : lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Oct 15 16:22 /usr/lib/libxslt.so -> ./libxslt.so.1 : -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 346644 Oct 15 16:22 /usr/lib/libxslt.so.1 : -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 487 Oct 15 16:22 /usr/lib/llib-lexslt : -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 135186 Oct 15 16:22 /usr/lib/llib-lexslt.ln : -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 487 Oct 15 16:22 /usr/lib/llib-lxslt : -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 185413 Oct 15 16:22 /usr/lib/llib-lxslt.ln : [lab146]# : [lab146]# echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH : /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/openssl:/usr/X11/lib:/usr/sfw/lib:/usr/local/ssl/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/instantclient_11_2/32/lib : [lab146]# the "pip" install output showed that the etree.so was indeed linked against the libs ... : gcc -shared build/temp.solaris-2.11-i86pc.32bit-3.2/src/lxml/lxml.etree.o -L/usr/lib -lxslt -lexslt -lxml2 -lz : -lm -o build/lib.solaris-2.11-i86pc.32bit-3.2/lxml/etree.so are there some steps that i'm missing ... the python2 that was bundled with the system, works: : [lab146]# p2 : Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Oct 17 2011, 16:55:05) [C] on sunos5 : Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. : >>> from lxml import etree : >>> : : [lab146]# pldd 21862 : 21862: python : /usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1 : /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 : /lib/libdl.so.1 : /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/readline.so : /usr/lib/libreadline.so.5 : /lib/libm.so.2 : /usr/local/lib/libncurses.so.5.7 : /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8.1.1 : /usr/gcc/4.5/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 : /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2.5.1 : /usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/lxml/etree.so : /usr/lib/libxslt.so.1 : /usr/lib/libexslt.so.0 : /lib/libxml2.so.2 : /lib/libz.so.1 : /lib/libpthread.so.1 : /lib/libsocket.so.1 : /lib/libnsl.so.1 : /lib/libmd.so.1 : /lib/libmp.so.2 : /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_fileio.so : /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_functools.so : /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/time.so : /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_collections.so : /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/operator.so : /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_bytesio.so : /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/strop.so : [lab146]# thanks in advance for all help, cheers, sam