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Ubuntu
Installing
The Sun Studio installer is based on rpms, the best thing for installing on non-rpm systems is to use a tarball-style distribution. It's also possible to install RPM on your system and use that. The rpm utility is expected in /usr/bin, if it lives elsewhere, you can add a symlink as a workaround.
July 08 Express 'tail' problem. The shell script installer for the July 2008 release uses a troublesome tail option. Do this before you run the script: export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209
Running
Sun Studio isn't able to build 32-bit applications on the 64-bit version of Ubuntu. The bug for this is 6758500.
dbx produces some funny warning messages about mismatched checksums on ubuntu 6.10. The bug for this is 6563341