System Requirements

Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3 software supports the hardware and operating system requirements shown in Table 1-1.

Table 1-1 System Requirements

	Solaris OS on SPARC based systems	Solaris OS on x86 based systems	Linux OS on x86 based systems	Desktop system OS
Operating system	Solaris 10 10/08 and subsequent Solaris 10 OS updates Solaris 11	Solaris 10 10/08 and subsequent Solaris 10 OS updates Solaris 11	Oracle Linux 5 and 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6	Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Ubuntu 9.10 or later Ubuntu update, Macintosh OS X 10.5 or later Macintosh OS X update (for installation of desktop distribution only)
CPU	SPARC-based systems SPARC64 platform-based systems	x86 64–bit platform based systems	x86 64–bit platform based systems	x86 64–bit platform based systems
Memory	Recommended: 3 GB Minimum: 1.5 GB	Recommended: 3 GB Minimum: 1.5 GB	Recommended: 3 GB Minimum: 1.5 GB	Recommended: 3 GB Minimum: 1.5 GB
Temporary disk space required by the installer	2 GB	2 GB	1.5 GB	N/A
Disk space required by the installed product (Use the `df -k` command to check your disk space.)	1.76 GB	1.52 GB	1.43 GB	365 KB
Swap space	Recommended: 2 to 4 GB Minimum: 1 GB To add swap space to your system, see Adding Swap Space	Recommended: 2 to 4 GB Minimum: 1 GB To add swap space to your system, see Adding Swap Space	Recommended: 2 to 4 GB Minimum: 1 GB To add swap space to your system, see Adding Swap Space	N/A
Operating system configuration	For the Solaris 10 OS: Entire Solaris Software Group Plus OEM Support, Entire Solaris Software Group, or Developer Solaris Software Group	For the Solaris 10 OS: Entire Solaris Software Group Plus OEM Support, Entire Solaris Software Group, or Developer Solaris Software Group	For the Linux OS: Development/Libraries Package Group, including `glibc.i686`, `glibc-devel`, and `glibc-devel.i686`	N/A

Java SE Development Kit (JDK) 6 Update 24 or later is required to run the IDE, dbxtool, DLight, Code Analyzer, and Performance Analyzer. If you plan to use these tools and do not have the required JDK, you can download the JDK from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html and install it after you have installed Oracle Solaris Studio.

On Linux platforms, you must install Java SE Development Kit (JDK) 6 Update 24 or later before installing Oracle Solaris Studio. The installer does not run with the OpenJDK included in Oracle Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux repositories.

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