How to install Sun Studio 12 on Ubuntu

You may want to have a look at http://blogs.sun.com/richb/entry/trying_out_the_sun_studio

Best Regards,
Williamts99

Thank you very much.
I will try it out on Thursday and see how it goes.

I will let you know as soon as I find out.

Thanks again,

Jim

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Ok, this basic stuff is irritating.

I downloaded two objects:

SunStudio12PrepSys-linux-x86-200705.tar.bz2
and
SunStudio12-linux-x86-200705-ii.tar.bz2

I attempted to unpack the first archive and had problems right off the bat:

root@ubuntu:/home/jim/SS12Doc# tar xjvf SunStudio12PrepSys-linux-x86-200705.tar.bz2
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2

I am trying the install as "root" and have also opened the permissions wide (777).

Any ideas???

Jim

Still not working...

I tried the explicit command listed on the Sun site:

root@ubuntu:/home/jim/SS12Doc# bzcat SunStudio12PrepSys-linux-x86-200705.tar.bz2 | /bin/tar -xf -
bzcat: SunStudio12PrepSys-linux-x86-200705.tar.bz2 is not a bzip2 file.

???

Jim

Finally, I have downloaded and unpacked both of the archives:

SunStudio12-linux-x86-200705-ii.tar.bz2
SunStudio12PrepSys-linux-x86-200705.tar.bz2

I unpacked them into /usr and the appropriate subdirectories appear to be created.

I will attemp to run the following to check for and install preqequisite software on Friday:

     /usr/SS12_prep_system/prepare_system -C

Hopefully, that will run without incident and I will be ready to go.

I am doing all of this as "root".

Thanks,
Jim

I will acknowledge it as solved as soon as I can verify the application works...
I will do that as soon as I can...I have several things going on and am not able to devote all of my time to this task.

This morning, Friday the 13th, is a good morning!
I first ran: /usr/SS12_prep_system/prepare_system -C

I was told that netbeans was not found.
However, the README file had indicated that it might say this and to ignor it.

I tried to use ./prepare_system -s java to install the jdk, but this does not work on Ubuntu.

So, I used the Synaptic PM and installed: sun-java6-jdk (6-00-2ubuntu2)

I had previously installed: sun-java6-jre (6-00-2ubuntu2) (and other related packages)

I modified PATH and MANPATH as described in the "Sun Studio 12 Tarfile README".

Now, when I issue the command: sunstudio GUI appears and behaves as I would expect.

I will now begin to check out the other behaviors.

However, this problem now appears to be solved.

Thanks: Williamts99 for your help.

Jim

Thanks williamts99, that solved my question.