How To Install Lotus Notes 8.5.1 in Ubuntu karmic 64 Bit

hcl-bot · October 24, 2009, 11:30am

Hello

Just wanted to give a hint after hours of trying to install Lotus Notes 8.5.1 on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala 64 Bit.

Download Notes 8.5.1 for debian platforms and extract the files.
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
install getlibs from http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/
issue the following command:

sudo getlibs -p libavahi-client3 libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libbonoboui2-0 libcroco3 libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libeel2-2 libgnome2-0 libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome-menu2 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeui-0 libgnomevfs2-0 libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-dev librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libselinux1 libsepol1 libstartup-notification0 libxkbfile1 gtk2-engines-ubuntulooks gtk2-engines-murrine

install the Notes Deb files:

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture ibm-lotus-notes-8.5.1.i586.deb

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture ibm-lotus-activities-8.5.1.i586.deb

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture ibm-lotus-cae-8.5.1.i586.deb

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture ibm-lotus-sametime-8.5.1.i586.deb

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture ibm-lotus-symphony-8.5.1.i586.deb

Now it got tricky when i started Notes I realized the following: The fonts where very ugly so I installed some fonts

sudo apt-get install ttf-xfree86-nonfree

now it look nicer but I could not see the Homescreen nor could I open messages in the mail nor could i compose messages so I did the following:

replace some libaries accordinf to aha.de you can find them here. Very special thanks to aha.de you saved me hours.

http://linux-aha.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/notes_libs_karmic.tgz

replace the libraries in /opt/ibm/lotus/notes with the ones from the link above . make sure they are owned by root and that they are executable. set the permissons like the ones of the other libraries in /opt/ibm/lotus/notes

You now can start Lotus Notes from the menu

Kind regards

Michael

hcl-bot · October 25, 2009, 10:59pm

Subject: xinerama does not work

After the last update xinerama does not work anymore

hcl-bot · October 29, 2009, 5:19pm

Subject: RE :8.5.1 in Ubuntu karmic 64 Bit

Do your bits of GTK that are used in Notes come out quite blocky, such as the scroll bars, prompts ? I can see that it is moaning about WRONG ELF, which probably explains it, just wondering if yours is the same or there is something I can do to get Notes to use 32-bit libs?

Tried

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32

but still finds /usr/lib and moans about WRONG ELF.

Annoying, because I cannot use a 32-bit OS.

Thanks

Mark

hcl-bot · October 30, 2009, 9:57am

Subject: Better look of Lotus Notes on Ubuntu 64 bit

Hello!

To improve the appearence of Lotus Notes on Ubuntu 64bit the currently used “gtk-theme-engine” have to be installed in it’s 32 bit form.

You have to download and extract the 32-bits libraries and put the files in

/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/

After that I created a startup-script called “notes.sh” which looks like this:

export GTK_PATH=/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0

cd /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework

…/notes

This is the gtk-engines in my folder:

ls /usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/

libaurora.la libhcengine.so libnodoka.so libsvg.so

libaurora.so libindustrial.so libpixmap.so libthinice.so

libclearlooks.so libluaengine.so libqtcurve.so libubuntulooks.la

libcrux-engine.so libmist.so libredmond95.so libubuntulooks.so

libglide.so libmurrine.so libsmooth.so

Each one of these are downloaded from http://packages.ubuntu.com/. The deb file is then opened in “archive managager” to be able to extract the files. They are located in the “data.tar.gz” in the deb-file.

It’s a little tricky but now my Notes-client looks very nice indeed.

hcl-bot · October 31, 2009, 5:06am

Subject: RE : Better look of Lotus Notes on Ubuntu 64 bit

Excellent advice, that makes sense.

Thanks for this advice !!!

Regards

Mark

hcl-bot · February 11, 2010, 11:49am

Subject: Notes still picking up some 64bit libraries

Hello,

I’ve followed all the steps mentioned, but my notes client is still picking up some gvfs 64bit libs. Is there a way to force notes to use 32bit?

/usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so

Thanks,

Leon

hcl-bot · January 15, 2010, 8:12am

Subject: Unable to locate package libeel2-2

W: Unable to locate package libeel2-2E: No packages found

libeel2-2 was not found in your repositories

Make sure you have all repositories enabled and updated

hcl-bot · April 22, 2010, 10:52am

Subject: ‘openwith’ not working for me

Hi

I followed your instructions and lotus notes is working fairly well. The one exception is that ‘openwith’ doesn’t work. When I try to open an attachment in mail, it just does nothing. When I run from the command line, I can see:

/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith: symbol lookup error: /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith: undefined symbol: eel_gnome_shell_execute_on_screen

so presumably something is not quite right. I’ve seen instructions elsewhere to replace ‘openwith’ with:

sudo ln -s $(which gnome-open) /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith

but that made things worse (many errors about pixbuf loader module).

hcl-bot · August 1, 2013, 6:20pm

Subject: Notes 9

Just installed Notes 9 on Ubuntu 64 without problems. Maybe upgrading to this version will solve all problems that I have read about the 8.5.x client.

IBM Notes 9.0 and Ubuntu 64 | Infoware on the move (for reading on how)

hcl-bot · October 24, 2009, 4:41pm

Subject: Nice work!

Step 7 worked for me on 32-bit Karmic.

Until I did that I could see no Workspace, Home Page or replicator page.

Many thanks.

Cheers,

Mike

hcl-bot · October 25, 2009, 1:34pm

Subject: Install notes 8.5.1 Karmic

confirmed step 7. works for Karmic 32 bit aswell

Kind regards

Michael

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hcl-bot · February 6, 2010, 1:16am

Subject: not a solution!

I agree, thanks very much to the OP for pointing us to the mystical gdk/gtk libraries, which solve the empty pane problem.

But this is not a solution! I mean, come on: downloading a binary blob of libraries, with no source code and no explanation of where they came from or why, and installing them for all of your users to run whenever they start Notes?

This bug is serious and makes Notes almost unusable on 64-bit Linux hosts. IBM needs to fix the problem! The mystical downloadable fix causes some other visual problems on my host, and anyway, what happens when IBM issues an update and this fix no longer works? It is not a solution.

And try as I might, I can’t find any place on this site to file a bug report about this serious problem! Am I missing something? Can someone point me to it? If not, I have to spend some quality time on the phone with IBM.

Thanks,

Andrew.

hcl-bot · June 2, 2010, 3:40pm

Subject: not a solution!

the mysterious gdk/gtk libraries didn’t solve my empty pane problems — the biggest of which is the preview pane for email - nothing shows up and I constantly get an error pop-up that says:

Notes error: Attempt to use an invalid slot number

hcl-bot · July 21, 2010, 9:51pm

Subject: solution!

I have no idea why - but all of a sudden today Lotus Notes 8.5.1 FP3 works! I get the preview pane and no more invalid slot numbers.

Honest - I didn’t do anything. I didn’t download anything, I didn’t install anything.

I can only think of two things that might have produced this result.

I have a document open in Lotus Symphony for the first time - I usually use Open Office not Symphony.
I have the ISA Data Collector open - I figured, why not collect some data on what’s happening.

I AM ECSTATIC!!!