SUN Solaris Patches for JDM running on JRE v1.3.0

This document describes the installation procedure for the Solaris Patches to support Java Runtime Environment v1.3.0. We strongly recommend you to refer to the Solaris Patches Site. for up to date information.

Note the JRE v1.3.0 is supported on Solaris 5.6, 5.7, and 5.8. If the system has version older than 5.6, it must be upgraded to at least 5.6 level. Also note that the minimum version of JDM to run on JRE 1.3 is v5.0.0.0.

The collective patches set is comprised of two patch sets, one is the Recommended & Security Patch Clusters, and the other is the Patches for JRE v1.3.0. The size of combined file is big(60+ MB for 5.6/5.7 and 15+ MB for 5.8), all in compressed format) and it takes long time(2+ hours for 5.6/5.7) to install. The installation needs to be done only once on a system.

The three downloadable archives are as follows. You only need to download the proper one according to your system:

For SunOS2.6/Solaris 5.6 - patch56.tar

For SunOS2.7/Solaris 5.7 - patch57.tar

For SunOS2.8/Solaris 5.8 - patch58.tar

Here are some installation notes (using Solaris 5.6 as an example):

Download the archive to a working directory and un-tar the file by executing the following command:

% tar -xvf patch56.tar

The archive file is patch57.tar for Solaris 5.7 and patch58.tar for Solaris 5.8.

The auto install script file is pinst56, make it executable by executing the following command:

% chmod a+x pinst56

The script file is pinst57.tar for Solaris 5.7 and pinst58.tar for Solaris 5.8.

You must be root to run the command, execute the following commands:

% su root

% ./pinst56

Done(after a few hours). You may want to check the installation log by looking at files in /var/sadm.

You need to reboot the system to let the patch install take effect.