Before you can install Oracle Solaris Studio 12.4 on Oracle Solaris 11, you must ensure that some required system libraries are updated. These libraries are included with the Oracle Solaris 11 operating system in the sunpro-incorporation consolidation package, not with Oracle Solaris Studio.
Since these libraries are also used by Oracle Solaris Studio itself, you must install the libraries on Oracle Solaris 11.2 before installing Oracle Solaris Studio.
An updated version of the sunpro-incorporation package has been added to the Oracle Solaris 11 release repository to address issues fixed in Oracle Solaris 11.2 SRU01 since Oracle Solaris 11.2 was released.
These instructions assume you are familiar with basics of the Oracle Solaris 11 Image Packaging System (IPS). A brief video introduction to IPS is available at http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/tech/OTN_Demos/IPS/IPS-demo.html.
For more extensive coverage of IPS, see Adding and Updating Software in Oracle Solaris 11.2 in the Oracle Solaris 11.2 Information Library.
Update the required system libraries using one of the following methods, depending on whether you have purchased a support contract for Oracle Solaris to obtain access to the support repository:
Update your system to the latest Oracle Solaris 11.2 Support Repository Update (SRU). Access to the Oracle Solaris 11 support repository requires an Oracle Solaris 11 Support Contract. For details, refer to the article How to Update Oracle Solaris 11 Systems from Oracle Support Repositories.
See a sample session in Example 1: Updating a Oracle Solaris 11.1 Boot Image to the Latest SRU from the Oracle Solaris 11 Support Repository.
Update your system to Oracle Solaris 11.2 from the Oracle Solaris 11 release repository at http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release as documented in Updating to Oracle Solaris 11.2 in the Oracle Solaris 11.2 Information Library.
Unlock the sunpro-incorporation package on the system to be updated. See the instructions Unlocking the sunpro-incorporation Package.
Update the sunpro-incorporation package from the packages provided in the Oracle Solaris 11 release repository as described in Updating the sunpro-incorporation Package in a New Boot Environment . The process is similar to the one described in the article How to Update Only Java on Your Oracle Solaris 11 System if "sunpro" is substituted for "java" in shell commands shown in the article.
(Optional) Relock the sunpro-incorporation package as described in Relocking the sunpro-incorporation Package.
The examples for unlocking and updating the sunpro-incorporation package are shown in the session in Example 2: Updating the sunpro-incorporation Package from the Oracle Solaris 11 Release Repository.
If you decide later to synchronize the system with the latest Oracle Solaris 11.2 SRU, you can do so after obtaining access to the Oracle Solaris 11 support repository. For details of synchronizing, see Example 3: Synchronizing sunpro-incorporation with the Latest SRU from the Oracle Solaris 11 Support Repository.