Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Installation Guide

GUI Installer Will Fail If TMPDIR Points to Non World-Writable Directory

If you choose to install the symbolic links to Sun Studio software in the /usr/bin and /usr/man/share directories, and your TMPDIR environment variable is pointing to a directory that is not world-writable, then the GUI installer will fail to complete installation. To ensure that this situation does not occur, unset your TMPDIR environment variable or set it to a world-writable directory before starting the installer.