>thanks for your reply. >I've created a symbolic link such as you suggest (ln -s libodbc.so odbc3= 2.so), >but I obtain the same error. > That should be: ln -s libodbc.so libodbc32.so (unless it's a typo in your message) It still complains about not being able to find the library, so either yo= u did what I hinted at above or the library is in a path Mono can't "reach"= . m.