SonarQube 6.3.1 on Solaris 11.3 SPARC

Solaris support was removed from SonarQube 5.4 (see Drop Solaris scripts from distribution). Let's see if we can still get it running (it's just a Java app after all).

First download the most current release, that would be 6.3.1 in our case.

Go to Downloads to do that and then unzip it somewhere (we're using /opt here as per filesystem(5)).

# cd /opt
# unzip .../sonarqube-6.3.1.zip

Let's see, what do we have here...

# vi sonarqube-6.3.1/conf/sonar.properties
# Property values can:^M
...

Ah nasty, config files with CR+LF line endings, let's fix that

# dos2unix sonarqube-6.3.1/conf/sonar.properties sonarqube-6.3.1/conf/sonar.properties
# dos2unix sonarqube-6.3.1/conf/wrapper.conf sonarqube-6.3.1/conf/wrapper.conf

What else do we have...

# ls sonarqube-6.3.1/bin/
jsw-license/          linux-x86-64/         windows-x86-32/
linux-x86-32/         macosx-universal-64/  windows-x86-64/

Well that won't work on SPARC, let's create a new directory...

# mkdir -p sonarqube-6.3.1/bin/solaris-sparc-64/lib
# cp sonarqube-6.3.1/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh sonarqube-6.3.1/bin/solaris-sparc-64/

Now we need a Java Service Wrapper for SPARC. Let's head over to Download the Java Service Wrapper to download one, which would be 64-bit Community SPARC Solaris in our case.

Let's unarchive it somewhere.

# mkdir /tmp/wrapper
# cd /tmp/wrapper
# gzcat .../wrapper-solaris-sparc-64-3.5.32.tar.gz | tar xf -
# cp wrapper-solaris-sparc-64-3.5.32/bin/wrapper /opt/sonarqube-6.3.1/bin/solaris-sparc-64/
# cp wrapper-solaris-sparc-64-3.5.32/lib/libwrapper.so /opt/sonarqube-6.3.1/bin/solaris-sparc-64/lib/

We have to clean up the old wrapper, too...

# rm /opt/sonarqube-6.3.1/lib/jsw/wrapper-3.2.3.jar
# cp wrapper-solaris-sparc-64-3.5.32/lib/wrapper.jar /opt/sonarqube-6.3.1/lib/jsw/wrapper-3.5.32.jar

Last thing, disable the update center since we're on a private network...

# cp /opt/sonarqube-6.3.1/conf/sonar.properties /opt/sonarqube-6.3.1/conf/sonar.properties.default
# perl -w -pi -e 's/^#(sonar.updatecenter.activate=)true/$1false/' /opt/sonarqube-6.3.1/conf/sonar.properties

*drum roll* Does it work?

# /opt/sonarqube-6.3.1/bin/solaris-sparc-64/sonar.sh start
Starting SonarQube...
Started SonarQube.

# tail -f /opt/sonarqube-6.3.1/logs/sonar.log
...
2017.04.12 15:41:42 INFO  app[][o.s.application.App] SonarQube is up

Looks good to me. Go to http://your.hostname:9000/ and enjoy your SonarQube instance running on Solaris/SPARC.

SonarQube 6.3.1 System Info

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Links

• Installing SonarQube on AIX, HPUX or Solaris
• Solaris 10: how to install SonarQube and perform a basic configuration