Installing java in Solaris on SPARC 64 bit architecture

This is a short post to describe installation of jdk/jre 1.6 in Solaris 10 on SPARC 64 bit platform.

Please note that java 1.6 is an older version & you'd need a support contract to download it.

Once you have downloaded the iso run the following command to extract it:

bash-3.2# unzip p9553040_160_SOLARIS64.zip
Archive:  p9553040_160_SOLARIS64.zip
  inflating: jdk-6u115-solaris-sparcv9.sh
 extracting: jdk-6u115-solaris-sparcv9.tar.Z
  inflating: jre-6u115-solaris-sparcv9.sh
  inflating: readme.txt

bash-3.2# ls

jdk-6u115-solaris-sparcv9.tar.Z

bash-3.2# zcat jdk-6u115-solaris-sparcv9.tar.Z  | tar -xf -

Once the file has been extracted it'll give us two packages:

One for JRE & other for JDK

bash-3.2# ls

jdk-6u115-solaris-sparcv9.tar.Z  SUNWj6dvx                        SUNWj6rtx

bash-3.2# pkgadd -d . SUNWj6dvx SUNWj6rtx

Processing package instance <SUNWj6dvx> from </java/123>

JDK 6.0 64-bit Dev. Tools (1.6.0_115)(sparc) 1.6.0,REV=2006.11.29.04.58

Copyright (c) 1995, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Using </usr> as the package base directory.

## Processing package information.

## Processing system information.

## Verifying package dependencies.

WARNING:

    The <SUNWj6dev> package "JDK 6.0 Dev. Tools (1.6.0)" is

    a prerequisite package and should be installed.

WARNING:

    The <SUNWj6rtx> package "JDK 6.0 64-bit Runtime Env.

    (1.6.0)" is a prerequisite package and should be

    installed.

Do you want to continue with the installation of <SUNWj6dvx> [y,n,?] y

## Verifying disk space requirements.

Processing package instance <SUNWj6rtx> from </java/123>

JDK 6.0 64-bit Runtime Env. (1.6.0_115)(sparc) 1.6.0,REV=2006.11.29.04.58

Copyright (c) 1995, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Using </usr> as the package base directory.

## Processing package information.

## Processing system information.

   6 package pathnames are already properly installed.

## Verifying package dependencies.

WARNING:

    The <SUNWj6rt> package "JDK 6.0 Runtime Env. (1.6.0)"

    is a prerequisite package and should be installed.

Do you want to continue with the installation of <SUNWj6rtx> [y,n,?] y

## Verifying disk space requirements.

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To verify the install you can check the installed version of java with the following command:

bash-3.2# pwd

/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.6.0/bin/sparcv9

bash-3.2# ./java -fullversion

java full version "1.6.0_115-b12"