Installation and Setup Guide for Linux Platforms

This chapter includes information about the following topics:

• The software installation overview
• System requirements
• Adding swap space
• Installing the Java Desktop System Development Tools
• Choosing local display or remote display of the installer
• Locating the product serial number
• Installation features included in this release

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Software Installation Overview

The following steps outline the general process you follow to install the Sun Studio 10 software, product serial number, and supporting software. See the references provided in each step for specific procedures.

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System Requirements

Sun Studio 10 supports the system requirements shown in TABLE 1-1.

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Installing the Java Desktop System Development Tools

If you are installing the Sun Studio 10 software on the Java Desktop System (JDS) software, you need to add the Development Tools package group to your JDS installation. This package group is not installed as part of a default JDS installation. To install this package group, do the following:

1. Become a superuser (root) by typing:

% su

Password: root-password

2. Start the Java Desktop System Configurator by typing:

# yast2 &

3. In the right panel, select Install or Remove Software.

The Package Information window opens.

4. In the left panel of the Package Information window, select Development Tools; then click Accept in the bottom right corner of the window.

The Installation window opens followed by a dialog box asking you to insert the appropriate CD.

5. Insert the requested CD and click OK, and the Development Tools package group installs.

6. When the installation is complete, click Close in the Configurator window.

7. Exit from superuser privileges by typing:

# exit

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Adding Swap Space

If you want to add swap space, do the following:

8. Become a superuser (root) by typing:

% su

Password: root-password

9. Create a file in a selected directory to add swap space by typing:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dir/myswapfile bs=1024 count=number_blocks_needed

where dir is a directory in which you have permission to add swap space. The myswapfile is the name of the swap file you are creating. The number_blocks_needed is an amount of 1024-byte blocks you want to create.

See the dd(1) man page for more information.

10. Verify that the file was created by typing:

# ls -l /dir/myswapfile

The new file appears in the directory.

11. Initialize the new swap area by typing:

# mkswap /dir/myswapfile

See the mkswap(8) man page for more detailed information.

12. Run the swapon command to enable the new swap space for paging and swapping by typing the following:

# swapon -a /dir/myswapfile

13. Verify that the extra swap space was added by typing:

# swapon -s

The output shows the allocated swap space.

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Choosing Local Display or Remote Display of the Installer

You can display the installer either locally or remotely while you are installing the Sun Studio 10 software with the graphical user interface installer or the command-line installer:

• Local display. The source computer and the display computer are the same computer. The installer window or command-line installer is displayed on the same computer that contains the product CD-ROM or downloaded files and runs the installer. You can continue to Chapter 2.
• Remote display. The source computer and the display computer are different computers. The source computer contains the product CD-ROM or downloaded files and runs the installer. The display computer displays the installer window or command-line installer. To install using a remote display, follow the instructions in Preparing to Install Using a Remote Display or Installing to an NFS-mounted Filesystem.

Preparing to Install Using a Remote Display

To prepare for installation using a remote display, follow these steps:

1. On the display computer, enable client access to the X server by typing the following at a command line:

% xhost + source-computer-name

Replace source-computer-name with the output of the /usr/bin/hostname command entered on the source computer, which is the computer that contains the product CD-ROM or downloaded files.

2. Log in to the source computer and become a superuser (root) by typing:

% rlogin source-computer-name -l rootname

Password: root-password

3. On the source computer, set the display to the monitor that is attached to the display computer.

If you use the C shell, type:

# setenv DISPLAY display-computer-name:0.0

If you use the GNU Bourne-Again shell, type:

# export DISPLAY=display-computer-name:0.0

If you use the Korn shell, type:

# export DISPLAY=display-computer-name:0.0

Replace display-computer-name with the output of the /bin/hostname command entered on the display computer.

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Installing to an NFS-mounted Filesystem

To install the Sun Studio software on an NFS-mounted filesystem, you must run the installer on a supported system regardless of where the NFS partition is mounted. In the following procedure, the server is the machine with the physical disk on which the installed software will reside, and the client is the machine on which you run the installer and which NFS-mounts the filesystem from the server.

To prepare for installing the Sun Studio software on an NFS-mounted filesystem:

1. On the server machine, share the filesystem with the appropriate options. It is essential that root on the client machine on which the installer will be run have full access to the NFS filesystem:

# /usr/sbin/exportfs -o no_root_squash,rw client-machine:filesystem

2. On the client machine, mount the shared filesystem with read/write access:

# mount server-machine:filesystem installation-directory

For example, you might mount the filesystem on installation directory /mnt on client machine foo.

You can then install the Sun Studio product on the server by running the graphical user interface installer, command-line installer, or batch installer on client machine foo. For the graphical user interface installer or the command-line installer, you would select /mnt as the installation directory. For the batch installer, you would specify /mnt as the installation directory using the -d option.

After you have installed the software, any machine that is running a supported version of the Linux operating system can mount the filesystem from the server on which you installed the software, and run the software..

To uninstall Sun Studio software installed on an NFS-mounted filesystem, you must run the uninstaller on the same client machine you used to install the software, and you must mount the filesystem prior to running the uninstaller.

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Locating the Product Serial Number

When you purchase the product, the serial number is listed on a card that is enclosed in the product package. The 26-character number on the card is the number that you enter in the Enter Serial Number page of the installer during installation. You can also generate a 60-day trial serial number during the installation process.

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Installation Features Included in This Release

This Sun Studio 10 software release includes the following installation features:

• Graphical user interface installation
• Command-line installation
• Batch installation
• Serial number installation tool (snit)
• J2SE software installation
• Batch uninstallation
• Graphical user interface uninstallation
• Command-line uninstallation

This document includes instructions for using each of the features.

Installation and Setup Guide for Linux Platforms

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