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**Prerequisite Software Installation for Sun^TM^  Solaris^TM^ Operating System
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The following is an outline of the steps involved in installing the prerequisite software for running the SSC 4D Orbit Viewer application on the Sun Solaris.  In general, no additional software installations are required for Solaris 10 1/06 and later (including OpenSolaris releases) although installing better graphics drivers (e.g., the nVIDIA drivers) may improve performance. The reader should refer to each product’s installation instructions for detailed information about installing the product.

Step 1: Install/upgrade graphics drivers and OpenGL® graphics library

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Install/upgrade to Sun^TM^ OpenGL 1.2.3 or higher and any required patches.
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Install OpenGL.  The following are possible sources of OpenGL for Solaris x86:\

Step 2: Install the Java^TM^ 1.5 or later

Note: This step is not required on Solaris 10 since Solaris 10 includes Java 1.5.0.

Install Java SE version 1.5.0 or higher and any required Solaris patches. Only the JRE is required to support the SSC 4D Orbit Viewer. Refer to these instructions for configuring Mozilla and derivative browsers (e.g., Netscape^TM^ 6/7).

When finished installing the prerequisite software, close this window and return to the SSC 4D Orbit Viewer application site to launch the application.


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