I installed Sun Studio Express 2008.11 on Ubuntu 8.10 running on my OpenSolaris 2008.11 platform using VirtualBox to host Ubuntu as a client OS.

Now, there's no real reason for doing this... Sun Studio Express runs just fine on OpenSolaris natively. But I just wanted to see what it would look like on Ubuntu.

The only wrinkle in running Sun Studio Express on Ubuntu was having to install the Java JDK, which apparently is not part of the default Ubuntu 8.10. But I was able to find it on the Ubuntu repository and install it using their package manager. Very easy.

I tried this only because someone on one of the Ubuntu forums asked if Sun Studio Express compilers and tools ran on Ubuntu 8.10.

Clearly, the answer is YES. And you might find some more information

here:

http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunStudio/Installing+Sun+Studio+on+Different+Linux+Distros

and here:

http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunStudio/Sun+Studio+Linux+Platform+FAQ

Lots of fun here.