F Operating System Patches and Packages

This appendix provides information about the operating system patches and packages for Solaris operating system (SPARC). It contains the following topics:

• Operating System Patches

• Operating System Packages

F.1 Operating System Patches

Table F-1 lists the Solaris operating system patches that you must install before installing. These are patches that make up the "J2SE patch cluster". You can download the patches from:

http://sunsolve.sun.com

Refer to the README file included with the patch for instructions on installing it.

Note: Although the patches listed in Table F-1 are current at the time of publication, Sun Microsystems, Inc. often updates the list of required patches for J2SE. Click the "Readme" link on the following URL for the most current list of patches: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/J2SE

Table F-1 Required Patches for Solaris Operating Systems

Operating System	Patches Required
Solaris 8	108652-82 or higher: X11 6.4.1: Xsun patch 108921-21 or higher: CDE 1.4: dtwm patch 108773-18 or higher: IIIM and X input and output method patch 111310-01 or higher: /usr/lib/libdhcpagent.so.1 patch 109147-28 or higher: Linker patch 111308-04 or higher: /usr/lib/libmtmalloc.so.1 patch 112438-03 or higher: /kernel/drv/random patch 108434-17 or higher: 32-bit shared library patch for C++ 108435-17 or higher: 64-bit shared library patch for C++ 111111-04 or higher: /usr/bin/nawk patch 112396-02 or higher: /usr/bin/fgrep patch 110386-03 or higher: RBAC feature patch 111023-03 or higher: /kernel/fs/mntfs and /kernel/fs/sparcv9/mntfs patch 111317-05 or higher: /sbin/init and /usr/sbin/init patch 113648-03 or higher: /usr/sbin/mount patch 115827-01 or higher: /sbin/sulogin and /sbin/netstrategy patch 116602-01 or higher: /sbin/uadmin and /sbin/hostconfig patch 108987-13 or higher: Patch for patchadd and patchrm 108528-29 or higher: Kernel update patch 108989-02 or higher: /usr/kernel/sys/acctctl and /usr/kernel/sys/exacctsys patch 108993-36 or higher: LDAP2 client, libc, libthread and libnsl libraries patch 109326-14 or higher: libresolv.so.2 and in.named patch 110615-11 or higher: sendmail patch
Solaris 9	113096-03 or higher: X11 6.6.1: OWconfig patch 112785-35 or higher: X11 6.6.1: Xsun patch

How to Get a List of Operating System Patches Installed on Your Computer

To determine which patches are installed on your computer:

1. Run the showrev command with the -p option. The following command saves the sorted output to a file called patchList.

   prompt> showrev -p | sort > patchList
   
   

2. Open the file in a text editor, such as vi or emacs, and search for patch numbers.

How the Installer Checks for Operating System Patches

The installer searches for the required patch versions on your computer. If it does not find an exact match, it displays a warning message in the shell where you started the installer.

DVD-ROM: prompt> mount_point/runInstaller
...
... installer performs prerequisite checks here ...
...
Some optional pre-requisite checks have failed. Continue? (y/n) [n] n

The installer gives you a choice to exit or continue.

Type n to exit the installer if you do not have all the patches. You should download and install the patches.

Type y to continue only if you are sure all the required patches are installed.

F.2 Operating System Packages

Check that your computer contains the following operating system packages. If the packages are not present, the installer cannot continue.

• SUNWarc

• SUNWbtool

• SUNWhea

• SUNWlibm

• SUNWlibms

• SUNWsprot

• SUNWsprox

  
  

  Note: The SUNWsprox package is not required if Operating System version is Solaris 10 (SPARC 64-bit).

  
  

• SUNWtoo

• SUNWi1of (the character after the "i" is the number 1, not the letter "ell")

• SUNWxwfnt

• SUNWi1cs (the character after the "i" is the number 1, not the letter "ell")

• SUNWi15cs (the character after the "i" is the number 1, not the letter "ell")

The last two packages (SUNWi1cs and SUNWi15cs) are required for the ISO8859-1 and ISO8859-15 codesets.

To check if an operating system package is installed on your computer, run the pkginfo command with the name of the package. The syntax for running pkginfo is:

pkginfo package_name1 package_name2 ...

For example, to check if all of the listed packages are installed on your computer, run the following command:

prompt> pkginfo SUNWarc SUNWbtool SUNWhea SUNWlibm SUNWlibms SUNWsprot SUNWsprox SUNWtoo SUNWi1of SUNWxwfnt SUNWi1cs SUNWi15cs

If your computer is missing a package, contact your system administrator.