I recently installed idl 7.1 on our new Sun machine running Solaris 10. >uname -a SunOS **** 5.10 Generic_138889-08 i86pc i386 i86pc When I run idl in command-line mode, everything seems to work fine >idl IDL Version 7.1, Solaris (sunos x86_64 m64). (c) 2009, ITT Visual Information Solutions ... IDL> But the other idl tools (idlde, help) do not seem to work. > idlde idlde is not available for this system (solaris2.x86_64) > idlhelp idlhelp is not available for this system (solaris2.x86_64) > idlman idlman is not available for this system (solaris2.x86_64) > idldemo The IDL Demos have not been installed. Please consult the installation guide for instructions on installing the demos. It looks like I can run "demo" successfully from inside IDL, but if I try to get help from the command-line IDL by typing something like "?print" I get % ONLINE_HELP: Starting the online help browser. "idlhelp is not available for this system (solaris2.x86_64)". I've installed IDL many times on many other platforms (solaris8 sparc, various flavors of linux, mac OSX, even windows) and never had much trouble - the IDL install is pretty straight-forward. What am I missing here? Are these tools really not available for this platform? That seems unlikely, but I do see that the size of the package I have installed is much smaller than those of the other platforms IDL & IDL VM 7.1 - Microsoft Windows 32-bit (XP SP2, Vista, Intel/AMD x86) WINDOWS 289.00 IDL & IDL VM 7.1 - Microsoft Windows 64-bit (XP, Vista, Intel/AMD x86_64) WINDOWS 343.00 IDL & IDL VM 7.1 - Sun Solaris 2(10 SPARC (32/64-bit)) UNIX 354.00 IDL & IDL VM 7.1 - Sun Solaris 2(10 Intel/AMD x86_64 (64-bit)) UNIX 120.00 (*) IDL & IDL VM 7.1 - Mac OS X – UNIX Install (10.5.1) Intel (32/64-bit) and PowerPC (32-bit) MAC 269.00 IDL & IDL VM 7.1 - Mac OS X Native Install (10.5.1) Intel (32/64-bit) and PowerPC (64-bit) MAC 340.00 IDL & IDL VM 7.1 - Linux (32/64-bit, Intel/AMD x86, x86_64) LINUX 362.00 Any help appreciated. Thanks. -Jonathan