Install Lotus Notes 8 GOLD on Ubuntu 7.04
New procedure, new experiments, actually I’ve grabbed this solution from the Domino install how-to, and then I’ve made some changes from my beta3 guide. I’ll hope that this how-to will be more simple and less faulty than others. Some disclaimer: for beta 3 Sun’s JREs cause some problems, they are requisite for installing on Ubuntu (only for beta), but if you leave them installed you’ll probably experience annoying crashes (other than normal bugs found on betas), so this time i started WITHOUT Sun JRE, only the GCJ correctly configured. Another italian blogger says this conflict are not present in gold version, but I prefered to not test this.
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I was starting from beta3 installed, even if was named as “production” I wasn’t confident in making an upgrade to GOLD, so I choose to uninstall before install final release. I’ve clean all user’s homedirs from notes directories. I’ll presume that current user is the only one with notes configured, exception from this assumption I think you can handle by yourself using command below as example 😀 :
$ rm -R -f lotus
Next you have to uninstall Notes (not simple, nor fast), but before we have to make BASH default shell, I’m not sure this is useful ‘cause it was something I’v learned from beta3 experiments, but at least for me nothing gone bad (or drove me mad), so I advise to you to do this:
$ ln -sf bash /bin/sh
$ cd /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/_uninst/
HINT: Default installs are here, if you’ve changed something try a locate for “uninstaller.bin”
Now I’ve enabled root to make interactive login, then made the logon to complete install:
$ sudo passwd root
$ su
$ ./uninstaller.bin
$ cd ~
$ mkdir notes8inst
$ mv /anywhere/you/downloaded/the/tar/notes8_gold.tar ~/notes8inst
$ cd notes8inst
$ tar xvf notes8_gold.tar
$ ./setup.sh
So you have installed succesfully without errors (at least i hope for you, as happened to me), first thing is to NOT START the client as root, wait, i think is better clean the environmentm from our changes (more: start as root is not advised from IBM, if I’m not wrong you try to start as root o with sudo It exit with an error):
$ ln -sf dash /bin/sh
Cleanin installation files:
$ cd ..
$ rm -R -f notes8inst/
Disabling root from interactive login:
$ exit
$ cd ~
$ sudo passwd -l root
From here I’ve started the client and configured my user, all easy and correct except for some graphic “glitches”, then I’ve closed Notes and started again, and graphic problems we’re gone, someone told me that same “glitches” happen even on windows client (like workspace pattern not visible on first start).
For now it seem to be stable.
HINT 1: if you like to preserve the installer like me, above use CP instead of CP for tar.
HINT 2: for a better cleaning of beta3 I advise you to use locate with keyword “notes”, I’ve RMed a lot of things in /OPT and /ETC. I’ve found some garbage even in root .Trash .
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