Sun Studio 12 Quick Installation (English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese)

Supporting Previous Sun Studio Releases

If you installed any previous release of Sun Studio software (Sun Studio 11 software or an earlier release) on your system, then you must uninstall it, or install the Sun Studio 12 software in a different directory.

If you installed the English-only release of the Sun Studio 12 software, you can use the installer provided with the multi-language release to update the installed software in two ways:

If you installed the Early Access release of Sun Studio 12 software, you must uninstall it before you can install the final release.

If you installed Sun Studio 10 software or Sun Studio 11 software on a Solaris 10 system, you can install Sun Studio 12 software on that system only if you specify the correct zones option when you run the Sun Studio 12 installer.