I managed to get Lotus Notes 8.0.1 to run on Ubuntu 7.0.1.
I just wanted to share my method of installation. Basically I combined informtaion from Install Lotus Notes 8 GOLD on Ubuntu 7.04 with information from (One) Ubuntu issue with Notes 8.0.1. There is really nothing new here, I just found that the first link did not handle my problems with permissions.
If this is a first install, you do like this:
Donwload the installation jar-file. I downloaded one called C1B12EN.tar.
The first line below forces a switch to the root user which is needed for the first steps of the installation.
sudo -i
mkdir notes8inst
mv /anywhere/you/downloaded/the/tar/installfile.tar ~/notes8inst
cd notes8inst
tar xvf installfile.tar
./setup.sh
I selected to install the Client, Sametime and the Composite Application tool. Not the Symphony packages.
When it is all done, I do like this:
chmod -R 755 /opt/ibm/lotus/notes
chmod -R 755 /etc/lotus/notes
This makes sure permissions on the client files are useable to the user who will be running the client.
Now do:
exit
This switches back to your regular Linux user.
Now run the Notes client. There is a menu item for it in the Applications->Office menu.
From there, it's normal Notes client initialization. What's your name, Domino server name, ID file and that kind of thing.
Update:
I found a problem with the internal browser in Lotus Notes.
It is visible in two places:
1) CTRL-L and type a url. You can't browse websites.
2) Emails that are in HTML format won't display. I got an errormessage saying that MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME was pointing to something that was not useable.
I got it working though. Thanks to help here: Embedded web browser doesn't work (EDIT, I got it working).
I first installede Xulrunner 1.8.something using the Synaptic Package Manager (available from the System->Administration menu).
Then I had a look in /etc/gre.d/
Two files there. And the one that was first - alphabetically - did not contain the line
xulrunner = true
I changed the name of that file in order for it to be after the good one alphabetically.
Then I created a file in /opt. I called it notes8start.sh and put the following inside it:
#!/bin/bash
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner
/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/notes
I made sure permissions were ok on the file:
chmod -R 755 notes8start.sh
Then, finally, I added a menu item that points to the /opt/notes8start.sh file. And it now works.
Not that painful. I've seen worse. Comments (4)
Jens Bruntt April 9th, 2008 14:35:50