Well… I finally figured out that the ucb package isn’t installed on Solaris 11 by default (resource). Unfortunately, the Oracle docs are confusing to follow. Here is a cheatsheet for installing the ucb package on your shiny Solaris 11 install. Figure out the IPS installer, read man pages, get frustrated at lack of detail, run to Google. Find the package you want on http://pkg.oracle.com/, in this case compatibility/ucb Add the publisher link to your config, by the way, this link is not documented that I can find so I had to guess and check.