The latest Sun Studio has two huge advantages:
- It's free (as in beer)
- It's Linux x86/x86_64 compatable
This means some ancient Fortran that was previously trapped on Sparc machines can now be ported to Linux boxes without having to muck through miles of uncommented code! (This guide only covers i386)
Here's the basic procedure:
- Download dependencies
- Download Sun Studio 12
- Uncompress the SunStudio install suite
- Ignore the builtin install program and use [FONT="Courier New"]alien[/FONT] to install the base programs
- Ignore the auto-patcher and use [FONT="Courier New"]alien[/FONT] to install the patches
[SIZE="6"]Download dependencies[/SIZE] There's really not a lot of dependencies. Just [FONT="Courier New"]alien[/FONT] I think. The installer, if you want to tinker with it, requires [FONT="Courier New"]gawk[/FONT] and Sun Java 6.
[SIZE="5"]Install [FONT="Courier New"]alien[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT="Courier New"]alien[/FONT] is a nice program that will install an RPM package as a Debian package. To install it simply do
sudo apt-get install alienSIZE="5" Download Sun Java 6[/SIZE] Sun Java 6 is available in the default Ubuntu repositories, or in Unstable for Debian. NOTE: If you want to install Sun Java 6 without going full-unstable, look up info on Apt-pinning.
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-binNOTE: If you want to tinker with the installer, you'll probably need to install all the other java6 packages (except the document package) NOTE: The plugin package is included for good measure.
SIZE="5" Download [FONT="Courier New"]gawk[/FONT][/SIZE] This one is easy
sudo apt-get install gawk[SIZE="6"]Download Sun Studio 12[/SIZE] On the Sun Studio website you can find links to download version 12 for free, provided you sign up as a SDN member, which is also free.
You'll want the package download. As of this writing, the file they give you is `[FONT="Courier New"]SunStudio12ml-linux-x86-200709-pkg.tar.bz2[/FONT]'.
[SIZE="6"]Uncompress the installer files[/SIZE] These files get extracted into the current directory, so we'll make a directory for us to use. The location of this temporary directory does not matter.
$ mkdir tmpss; cd tmpssNow we're ready to extract the installer files
tar -xjvf <PATH TO INSTALLER FILE>/SunStudio12ml-linux-x86-200709-pkg.tar.bz2[SIZE="6"]Install the base system using [FONT="Courier New"]alien[/FONT][/SIZE] There are a bunch of RPMs we need to install. This guide assumes you want to install everything. We simply use [FONT="Courier New"]alien[/FONT] and tell it to install all the Linux packages except the international ones.
alien -i `find install-intel-Linux/packages-intel-Linux -name "sun-*[!(zh|ja)]-12.0-1.i386.rpm"`[SIZE="6"]Install the patches using [FONT="Courier New"]alien[/FONT][/SIZE] Now we'll do the same thing with the patches, but we'll include all i386 and all noarch packages.
alien -i `find install-intel-Linux/product-patches-intel-Linux -name "*[ (i386|noarch) ].rpm"`Viola!
You now have Sun Studio 12 installed to [FONT="Courier New"]/opt/sun/sunstudio12[/FONT]
You may want to add [FONT="Courier New"]/opt/sun/sunstudio12/bin[/FONT] to your $PATH and [FONT="Courier New"]/opt/sun/sunstudio12/man[/FONT] to your $MANPATH