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Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Installation Guide

Chapter 1 Preparing for Installation

This chapter includes information about the following:

Software Installation Overview

The following steps outline the general process you follow to install the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software, product serial number, and supporting software.

Step 

Task 

Description 

For Instructions 

1. 

Verify that the system on which you are installing the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software meets the minimum hardware and operating system requirements for this release. 

Using a system that meets the system requirements is recommended for proper performance. 

See System Requirements

2. 

Determine whether you are going to display the installer locally or remotely. 

You can install the Sun Studio software using a remote display or local display. 

See Choosing Local or Remote Display of the Installer

3. 

Choose an installation method. 

There are two ways to install the Sun Studio software. 

See Choosing an Installation Method

4.  

Install the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software and the required OS patches. 

Step through the installation information. 

See Installing the Sun Studio Software

System Requirements

Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software supports the hardware and operating system requirements shown in Table 1–1.

Note –

For further disk space requirements and important last minute information about this release, see the release notes at http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/821-0080.

Table 1–1 System Requirements
 

Solaris OS on SPARC based systems 

Solaris OS on x86 based systems 

Linux OS on x86 based systems 

Operating system 

Solaris 10 1/06 and subsequent Solaris 10 OS updates 

OpenSolaris 2008.11 and 2009.06 (when installed from the OpenSolaris release repository) 

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 

RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 

CentOS 5 

Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.3 

CPU 

Sun UltraSPARC-based systems 

Fujitsu SPARC64 platform-based systems 

32 and 64 bit systems (Pentium class or newer) based on AMD and Intel x86 CPUs 

Memory 

Recommended: 1 to 2 GB 

Minimum: 512 MB (more may be needed for working with large projects in the IDE) 

Disk space (Use the df -k command to check your disk space.)

1.35 GB 

926 MB 

633 MB 

Swap space 

Recommended: 2 to 4 GB 

Minimum: 1 GB 

To add swap space to your system, see Adding Swap Space

Operating system configuration 

For the Solaris 10 OS: Entire Solaris Software Group Plus OEM Support, Entire Solaris Software Group, or Developer Solaris Software Group (To determine your operating system configuration, you need to verify the installed packages. Specific packages are installed for each configuration. See the Solaris OS installation documentation for more details.) 

Linux OS must include the Development/Libraries Package Group. 

Choosing Local or Remote Display of the Installer

You can display the installer either locally or remotely while you are installing the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software with the graphical user interface installer or the command-line installer:

ProcedurePreparing for Installation Using a Remote Display

  1. On the display computer, enable client access to the X server by typing the following on the 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 DVD or downloaded files.

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


    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:n.n

    If you use the Bourne shell, type:


    DISPLAY=display-computer-name:n.n
export DISPLAY

    If you use the Korn shell, type:


    export DISPLAY=display-computer-name:n.n

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

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.

Note –

The best way to share the product image as an NFS-mounted filesystem is to export it from a supported system. Run the installer on the server and share the directory in which the software is installed. Use the following NFS install procedure only if your NFS server is not a supported platform for the product.

After mounting the filesystem you can install the Sun Studio product on the server by running the graphical user interface (GUI) installer or non-GUI installer on the client machine . You would specify the directory on which you mounted the filesystem as the installation directory for the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software.

After you have installed the software, any machine that is running the Solaris 10 OS can mount the filesystem from the server on which you installed the software, and run the software. Each client machine that runs the software must have the required OS patches installed (see Appendix D, Patch Identification Numbers and Descriptions). You can install the patches using the install_patches utility (see Installing the Required Solaris OS Patches.

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.

ProcedureTo 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:


    share -F nfs -o root=client-machine,rw filesystem

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


    mount server-machine:filesystem installation-directory

Supporting Previous Sun Studio Releases

If you installed any previous release of Sun Studio software (Sun Studio 12 software or an earlier release) on your system, then you must uninstall it, or install the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software in a different directory.

If you used the English-only installer to install some components of the English-only release of the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software, you can use the multi-language installer to install additional components for the English locale. However, before using the multi-language installer to install Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software for additional locales, uninstall all English-only Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software installed with the English-only installer.

If you installed Sun Studio 10 software, Sun Studio 11 software, or Sun Studio 12 software on a Solaris 10 system, you can install the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software on that system only if you run the installer from the correct zone.

Choosing an Installation Method

There are two ways to install the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software:

Package installer, graphical user interface (GUI) mode 

The graphical user interface installer is an installation wizard that displays pages for a series of installation steps. On each page, you can quit, go back to the previous step, or go on to the next step. You can choose the installation directory and which components of the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software you want to install.  

Package installer, non-GUI mode 

The non-GUI mode of the package installer installs all components of the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 silently.