Solaris Patch Installation

For the most up-to-date list of recommended and required patches for this release of the Java 2 SDK, see

Solaris Patches

To list the patches installed on your system, use the command

showrev -p

If the required/recommended patches are not already installed, follow the steps below to install the necessary patches. Patch installation is simplest if the patch tar file is downloaded into an empty current working directory with at least 110MB of free space.

1. Extract the patch tar file that matches your version of Solaris (only one will apply to a given system).

Use a command of the form tar xvf <file-name>. For example, for Solaris 2.6 on SPARC, for update version 1.3.1_01, use:
tar xvf j2sdk-1_3_1_01-patches-solsparc-5.6.tar
This will create a number of patch archives with names of the form <patch-id>.tar.Z.

2. Uncompress and extract each of the patch archives that you wish to install:

uncompress <patch-id>.tar.Z
tar xvf <patch-id>.tar
A directory with a name like <patch-id> will be created for each patch. General instructions for patch installation are included in the Install.info file in the top-level directory of each patch. In addition, special installation instructions or post-installation requirements (such as a system reboot) appear in the README file included with each patch, along with a list of bug ids fixed and files changed by that patch.

3. Login to the system console as root.

4. Place the system in single-user mode

This step is not required, but is recommended for patch installation:
shutdown

5. Install the patches.

Most patches can be installed using the commands below; however the Install.info and README files for each patch should be consulted. In the commands below, replace <your_patch_directory> with the path to the directory where the patches were extracted. patchadd -M <your_patch_directory> <patch-id> <patch-id> ...

6. Shutdown and reboot. shutdown -i6