Thanks for the quick reply, from reading some of the other posts, I had already installed from the DVD, the VRTSperl.tar.gz package, which when I do a pkginfo -i, shows up as installed...I did also try and include in my .profile a path to include /op...
I'm getting this exact problem on downloaded tar files and now from DVD media as well direct from symantec. Does anybody have any idea how to get around this or have a answer. rgds John