Notes 8.0.1 on Ubuntu 8.04

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Has anyone managed to install Lotus Notes 8.0.1 on Ubuntu 8.04?

These are the issues faced so far after following instructions on the web for installing on Ubuntu 7.04:

  1. Graphical installer wouldn’t work - found some info to install an additional graphics library which enabled the installer to run but all I got was an empty dialog.

  2. Running the installer through -console mode failed with an error unable to read/write /etc/lotus/notes/notesrc. The setup was run under sudo so permissions were not a problem.

I’m annoyed as I had a version of Notes running under 7.10 but this has broken since upgrading.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated. I know its not officially supported but surely we can get it working?

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Subject: Known problem it seems

There is a thread here: hardy, locking assertion failure, xorg/libsdl that looks like this is a known Ubuntu 8.04 error.No fixes for us yet I am afraid.

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Subject: Notes 8.0.1 works under HH 8.0.4

Hi all, I guess I better do a write up on how to get Notes working under HH. I must admit that upgrading ANY of my systems failed with various issues.

However, a clean install worked perfectly and I am very pleased with it. I have not seen the assertion failure in xorg/libsdl yet but will investigate. I have libsdl1.2.13 installed. My primary HH install is on a thinkpad T61p with an Nvidia card and my Xorg.0.log is clean.

One issue with installing it under 64bit HH is with ia32-libs headers being updated to /usr/lib32 while notes still tries to find /usr/lib.

As you would be aware Ubuntu 8.0.4 is not a supported platform yet so even internal support is few and far between. That said HH is faster and there are some really cool new features. The best one is Firefox 3.b5.

As we get to grips with HH you will see new readme’s being published so a bit of patience is required.

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Subject: Ray-a step by step would be great!

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Subject: It works, mostly.

So… I’m running Xubuntu 8.04 64 bit. Did a fresh install because we’ve been trying to get Notes 8.01 working on 64 bit systems in general.

You do need some 32bit libs.

ia32-libs is a must.

I also got some direction from this guy:

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd8forum.nsf/DateAllThreadedWeb/54e3c4fd8c4b45e58525740e006285f6?OpenDocument

But I can streamline it a little for the Ubuntu people…

Definitely get the “getlibs” package. It’s handy. This is the list of libraries that you need to pass to getlibs (there is only one more that from the link above)

libavahi-client3

libavahi-common3

libavahi-glib1

libbonoboui2-0

libcroco3

libdbus-1-3

libdbus-glib-1-2

libeel2-2

libgnome2-0

libgnomecanvas2-0

libgnome-desktop-2

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

libXss

Or… just run this…

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-desktop-2 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 libXss

For me… after a fresh Xubuntu 8.04 64 install I did the above and the gui installer works.

I still had to do the chown stuff on /etc/lotus and /opt/ibm … and I actually forget what I had to do with my ~/lotus directory… but it’s good.

Also, there seem to be some common issues floating around with the embedded swt browser not working quite right. Lots of suggestions about MOZZILLA_FIVE_HOME and so on. I simply modified my notes.ini to include this line:

BrowserRenderDisable=1

It is supposed to diable hthml rendering in messages, but it resulted in the errors going away and messages still rendering well. So that is confusing, but I like the results.

MY PROBLEM now… :slight_smile:

For some crazy reason I can’t open my workspace or anything in the “Open list”. BUT… I can open ALL of the databases that are IN my workspace and in my “Open list”.

What’s even more ridiculous is that I can right click on an “Application” in the open menu “Copy as link” paste it into a message, click on it, and it opens!!!

Anyway… it’s driving me crazy and I haven’t been able to figure out why it’s happening.

Wasn’t happening on my 7.10 system… but that system also had a lot more packages installed.

Also… the libfile.so thing as mentioned in above link is an issue. But, I think I can modify a 32 bit version of libgnome-vfs… to check the right location.

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Subject: How to fix the MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME problem?

Hi,

is there any fix to get Notes 8.0.1 work with Firefox 3 beta 5 as embedded SWT browser?

It would be great, if I could read HTML mails on my Ubuntu machine.

Thanks

Jan Ehrhardt

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Subject: MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME

Hi,

resolution for Hardy:

  1. install xulrunner:

sudo apt-get install xulrunner xulrunner-gnome-support

  1. Create file with MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME setting to xulrunner dir:

sudo vim /etc/X11/Xsession.d/66LotusNotes8

with content:

export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner

  1. Restart Xwindows

That’s all!

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Subject: Want to use the Notes Install Wizard in Ubuntu 8.0.4 - install the libstdc++5 package

In order to get the graphical interface install wizard working in ubuntu 8.0.4 you need to install the libstdc++5 from the top menu.

The package is in the list of packages and you only need to install it.

I installed Notes 8.0.1 on Ubuntu 8.0.4 using the graphical Install wizard.

Good luck

Thomas

http://www.notessidan.se

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Subject: Disable Compiz

Haven´t tried installing on Ubuntu 8.0.4 but in earlier versions I had to disable Compiz to get Grapic Installer to work.

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Subject: Disabling compiz does not help

I have the same problem as Aidan has experienced.

I disabled Compiz using this command:

/usr/bin/metacity --replace &

The installer still fails.

Reenabling Compiz can be done like this:

/usr/bin/compiz --replace &

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Subject: I just got it running on a clean Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) install

Yezzzz.Got Notes 8.0.1 running on Hardy Heron. The only thing (?) I installed before I installed Lotus Notes was the Sun Java Runtime Environment 1.6, but that was just to be able to download the Lotus Notes software from Partnerworld using the Download Director. I do not think that made it work…

This is what I did:

Start a terminal session, and “cd” your way to the directory where you have the installation files(setup.sh , installdata and updateSite.zip + the deploy directory)

log in as root:

$ su root

I set the default command interpreter to bash, based on suggestions on this forum… I don’t think that is necessary, though, but this is what I did:

$ ln -sf bash /bin/sh

Copy one installation file to root’s home directory:

$ cp deploy/install.xml /root

If you do not copy the install.xml-file to /root, the installer will fail with an error message that notesrc-file is missing…

$ ./setup.sh -console

This starts the install in text-mode. I have not been able to get the graphical installer running…

When installation has finished, you should restore the sh command interpreter to dash:

$ ln -sf dash /bin/sh

Exit the terminal session, and start Notes from the Program menu ( Program/Office/Lotus Notes 8 ) (assuming you are logged in to X-windows system using your normal login account).

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Subject: 100000 Thanks

I´m an absolute newbee on Linux/Ubuntu 8.04

Your hint worked very fine.

Now I can use it on VMWare Workstation.

Thank You again.