Applications installed in sun4/installed/bin/Go (except goHanoi) need files (Xresources, interfaction files, help files, ...). These files are located in sun4/installed/lib/Go/app-files/. In order to run application correctly, you just have to set the shell variable GoENVIRON to the directory sun4/installed/lib/Go: GoENVIRON=/sun4/installed/lib/Go; export GoENVIRON For godraw (using X/Motif) you have to xrdb the file: sun4/installed/lib/Go/app-files/godraw/XmGoDraw or install it in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults. Note: godraw should run without X resources file, there is a bug which will be fixed in the next patches.