Hi there,
Like myself, you may have spent some time figuring out how to get Notes Client to run on certain popular Linux distro’s.
In fact, after carefully looking for which distro I should pick, I selected Mint due to the Page Hit ranking index here : http://distrowatch.com
It seems Mint is almost twice as popular as the nearest competitor.
I advertise on this GitHub resource that can make just that:
I have seen this referenced even in the tweaks and workrounds IBM suggests on DeveloperWorks and elsewhere.
I also contributed to the latest update to this repository, since I successfully got my Notes 9.0.1 Client to run on this Linux Debian variant:
Linux Mint 15 (Olivia) 32 bit, using Mate Desktop, to run decently on a 2-processor N270 Atom based netbook with 1GB RAM and plentiful freed disk.
I tried quite a few attempts to install it, and never understood why I got this message deep inside the Installer Log files:
CWPIM0023W: License is not accepted
and I did not understand why, until I realized a dependency to xterm and other related X-libraries were missing in the Debian package CONTROL file.
The GitHub repository owner has just recently tried to build a reasonable new CONTROL file to better reflect the needs.
That would in my view be better to have a CONTROL file mentioning the lowest level of conformity. That is, rather than just say
“We Depend on x in version y.z”
I recommends the notation
"We Depend on x (>= y.z)
(according to DEB 5 manpages link)
to signal that the version in question has been formally tested using version y.z of library x.
So the ‘larger’ question remains:
Instead of packaging Notes Client for popular Linux server distros, why arent IBM focusing on a selected few Linux client versions/distros ?
We are more than IBM’ers to assist in this field as you can see.