Installing Notes 8 Gold on Ubuntu 7.0.4
Category Lotus Notes 8 Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
As has been mentioned in the comments
of this thread over
on vowe.net, you can run Notes 8 on an Ubuntu Linux
Desktop. I just completed the Notes 8 installation atop a fresh install
of Ubuntu 7.0.4 (Feisty Fawn), and hit one little snag stemming from the
way Ubuntu handles "administrator" or "root" access.
Being new to Ubuntu this exact approach wasn't immediately apparent,
but after a little poking around the Notes 8 Forum
and little trial and error, here are the steps to success:
Update: In my rush to capture the lessons for *installing* it, I suppose I should have tried to actually *launch* Notes 8 before publishing this.
Turns out, there are two additional steps required before that will work:
Thanks to the folks in the Notes 8 Forum for pointing me in the right direction.
As has been mentioned in the comments
of this thread over
on vowe.net, you can run Notes 8 on an Ubuntu Linux
Desktop. I just completed the Notes 8 installation atop a fresh install
of Ubuntu 7.0.4 (Feisty Fawn), and hit one little snag stemming from the
way Ubuntu handles "administrator" or "root" access.
Being new to Ubuntu this exact approach wasn't immediately apparent,
but after a little poking around the Notes 8 Forum
and little trial and error, here are the steps to success:
- Download Package from IBM and Extract it to your "home" directory
- Open a terminal window by selecting "Applications - Accessories - Terminal". You do this because simply double-clicking on the setup.sh file will open the installer, but you will have to close it on the second screen because you lack "administrator" rights.
- To overcome this, type the following in the terminal window: sudo ./setup.sh
- Proceed with the installation
wizard normally. Note that if you're using a 7-year-old Pentium III
733Mhz PC the installer window may take a minute or two to appear without
warning
.
Update: In my rush to capture the lessons for *installing* it, I suppose I should have tried to actually *launch* Notes 8 before publishing this.
Turns out, there are two additional steps required before that will work:
- To even *see* "Lotus Notes 8" in the menu shown above, you'll need to either logout and back in or restart altogether.
- For anything to actually happen
when you try to launch, you'll need to change the "ownership"
of the new "lotus" directory found inside your home directory.
To do this, issue the following command from the Terminal: sudo chown
-R jsmith /home/jsmith/lotus/ (be sure to substitute "jsmith"
for your actual username - sorry, but it has to be said )
Thanks to the folks in the Notes 8 Forum for pointing me in the right direction.
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Posted by Kevin Pettitt At 09:31:29 PM On 08/28/2007 | - Website - |
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Posted by roberto At 01:51:40 AM On 09/04/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by Mark Demicoli At 10:29:51 AM On 08/23/2007 | - Website - |
@2 you have to do a sudo chmod on /etc/lotus/ also and that fixes the pernames.ntf problem. I also get that license error, but it seems to go away.
It sure is nice running Notes under Linux - I have it running under innotek VirtualBox (Ubunutu) and it's FASTER than running Notes 8 on the Vista host - go figure..
Posted by David Russell At 10:09:22 AM On 09/07/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by David Liddle At 05:27:18 PM On 08/28/2007 | - Website - |
How can I reinstall ??
Please help
Posted by Andre At 02:29:04 PM On 02/07/2008 | - Website - |
Wow... they really junk up the home folder don't they. >:( Boooo!
Posted by hyrcan At 06:38:25 PM On 12/11/2008 | - Website - |