Solaris 9/x86 only had 32-bit support - 64-bit was added in Solaris 10,
so there will be no Solaris 9 packages with 64-bit x86 libraries for download.
Solaris 10 should have all available GNOME 2.6 libraries installed as part
of the OS install - what libraries are you missing from that?
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Saha, Sayandeep wrote:
> Hi James
>
> Thanks for all your help.
>
> Hi Desktop Support team,
>
> We are running solaris 10 and are trying to run an executable which is a
> 64 bit built and need gnome 2.0 64 bit libraries.
>
> Can you pls let me know how I can get it? I have downloaded the package
> for solaris 9, but it seems to contain only the 32 bit version of the
> same.
>
> Regards
> Sayandeep
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James.Cheng at Sun.COM [mailto:James.Cheng at Sun.COM]
> Sent: 18 September 2008 15:08
> To: Saha, Sayandeep
> Cc: mediaLib at Sun.COM
> Subject: Re: Solaris/x86 64 bit
>
> Hi Sayandeep,
>
> GNOME is from another group, so I am not sure whether there is a 64-bit
> version of GNOME 2.0 for Solaris 9. You might like to take a look at
> http://www.sun.com/software/star/gnome/support.xml and send your
> question through this page:
> http://www.sun.com/secure/software/star/gnome/feedback.xml
>
> To my understanding, Solaris 10 has GNOME 2.6 bundled, which might not
> have a full 64-bit GNOME either. You might have a better luck with
> OpenSolaris which has GNOME 2.20 or new bundled. And here is the place
> to download the latest build of GNOME for OpenSolaris:
>
> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/jds/downloads/current/
>
> If you can not find the 64-bit libraries you need, then you might like
> to ask about them at desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org.
>
> BTW, the GNOME and its libraries built for OpenSolaris might not work on
> Solaris 10, as they might depend on newer libraries which are not
> available on Solaris 10.
>
> Thanks,
> -James
>
> On 9/17/2008 11:21 PM, Saha, Sayandeep wrote:
>> Hi James
>>
>> Sorry, I meant the other package gnome-2_0-fcs-solaris9-x86.tar.gz
>> where we can't find the 64 bit libraries.
>> http://www.sun.com/software/star/gnome/
>>
>> The SUNWmlib does contain the 64 bit version.
>>
>> Regards
>> Sayandeep
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: James.Cheng at Sun.COM [mailto:James.Cheng at Sun.COM]
>> Sent: 18 September 2008 13:46
>> To: Saha, Sayandeep
>> Cc: mediaLib at Sun.COM; Kalangath, Shajiv
>> Subject: Re: Solaris/x86 64 bit
>>
>> Hi Sayandeep,
>>
>> What installable? From which URL, specially?
>>
>> Again, i386.SUNWmlib.2.5.tar.gz consists of both 32-bit and 64-bit
>> libraries. I even don't know how to install part of that package, or
>> if that's possible. It's a very simple package, without any
>> preinstall or postinstall scripts.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -James
>>
>> On 9/17/2008 7:55 PM, Saha, Sayandeep wrote:
>>> Hi James
>>>
>>> Thanks for the clarification. However, we have some more questions.
>>>
>>> To give you a bit more background of our situation...
>>>
>>> We are using Solaris 10 and are trying to run a tool which is a 64
>>> bit
>>> built. It uses the SUNWmlib library. When we downloaded the
>>> installable from your website we could install only the 32 bit
>>> version
>>> of the package. Can you pls tell us how we can install the 64 bit
>>> version of the same?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Sayandeep
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: James.Cheng at Sun.COM [mailto:James.Cheng at Sun.COM]
>>> Sent: 18 September 2008 01:38
>>> To: Saha, Sayandeep
>>> Cc: mediaLib at Sun.COM
>>> Subject: Re: Solaris/x86 64 bit
>>>
>>> Hi Sayandeep,
>>>
>>> I guess I didn't say this clearly. On that web page, the SUNWmlib is
>
>>> listed as:
>>>
>>> mediaLib Packages for Solaris x86:
>>> . i386.SUNWmlib.2.5.tar.gz - Shared Libraries [29 MB]
>>>
>>> and it consists of both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.
>>>
>>> Note that here "i386" is the processor type, `uname -p`.
>>> It doesn't mean the "i386" in isalist(5).
>>>
>>> Sorry for the confusion. The web page could have been made clearer.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -James
>>>
>>> On 09/17/08 10:19 AM, James Cheng wrote:
>>>> Hi Sayandeep,
>>>>
>>>> Did you download the SUNWmlib package from this page?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sun.com/processors/vis/mlibfiles.html
>>>>
>>>> The SUNWmlib package consists of both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know about the SUN[W]gnome package. Where did you see that
>>>> package for download? It seems to me that the Sun GNOME (aka JDS)
>>>> has been delivered with multiple packages named like SUNWgnome-xxxx.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, both SUNWmlib and SUNWgnome-xxxx have been integrated in
>>>> Solaris
>>>> since Solaris 10. Are you using Solaris 9 or older? Or, are you
>>>> trying to upgrade GNOME on Solaris 10?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> -James
>>>>
>>>> On 09/17/08 01:51 AM, Saha, Sayandeep wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to download SUNWmlib and SUNgnome libraries from your
>>>>> website. But in the website only the 32 bit versions are listed.
>>>>> Can
>>>>> you pls let me know how I can get the 64 bit version of these
>>> libraries?
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Sayandeep
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