Cool Stack is Sun’s preferred suite of pre-compiled open-source software, optimized for performance on both Solaris x86 and SPARC architectures, and fully tested by Sun. While Cool Stack provides a great way to get up and running with the SAMP (Solaris, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack, Sun also provides several other packages through Cool Stack.

Cool Stack includes a base, runtime package (CSKruntime) that is required by all of the other packages listed below (with the exception of CSKtomcat, which is written in Java and is identical to the standard Tomcat distribution). To install the Cool Stack runtime package:

1. Download CSKruntime_1.2_x86.pkg.bz2 from http://cooltools.sunsource.net/coolstack/. See the guide to downloading from Sun's Download Center.
2. Decompress the archive:

   bzip2 -d CSKruntime_1.2_x86.pkg.bz2

3. Install the package:

   pkgadd -d CSKruntime_1.2_x86.pkg

   You will be prompted twice: at the first prompt, press ENTER to select the CSKruntime package. At the second prompt, press y to confirm the installation.

4. You should see:

   Installation of <CSKruntime> was successful.
   

ln: cannot create /usr/sfw/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7: Read-only file system
ln: cannot create /usr/sfw/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7: Read-only file system

CSKruntime 1.2 includes: libxml2 2.6.27, libiconv 1.9.2, openldap 2.3.30 cyrus-sasl 2.1.22, readline 5.2, pcre 7.1

1. Installing Apache, MySQL, PHP (CSKamp)
   1. Building Subversion for Apache 2.2
2. Installing Perl (CSKperl)
3. Installing Memcached (CSKmemcached)
4. Installing Ruby (CSKruby)
5. Installing Squid (CSKsquid)
6. Installing Tomcat (CSKtomcat)
7. Installing Lighttpd (CSKlighttpd)