Lotus Notes 8.5 Public Beta on Ubuntu Hardy
Markus Thielmann — Sat, 2008-05-31
I love Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino. Even if it's not free and open source software, it's a highly integrated groupware without comparable software solutions on the market.
With Lotus Notes 8.5, IBM offers -for the first time ever- Debian installation packages. According to IBM, Ubuntu will be fully supported for the release of 8.5.
Thanks to the new DEB-packages, installation is really easy. Right now, there are some minor issues with fonts selection.
2) Download the installation packages archive.
Install all packages:
tar xf notes85_notes_linux_deb_prod.tar
cd notes85_notes_linux_deb_prod
sudo dpkg -i *.debAfter you've successfully installed Lotus Notes, check out OpenNTF, which is a great source for some really useful FOSS Lotus Notes databases.
The availability of Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino is a substantial progress for the Ubuntu Project. There are thousands of business applications available for Lotus Notes. This eases migration from Microsoft Windows and offers a great value to Linux on the desktop.
I'm still missing the Lotus Notes Designer. Keep on working IBM!
[Thanks to Volker Weber for providing the relevant link]
Hi Markus, great stuff, you
Simon Scullion (not verified) — Mon, 2008-06-02Hi Markus, great stuff, you beat me too it!
I will be doing this as soon as I get a moment, hope to blog about the experience too.
One thing. It doesn't work on
Linus Wolter (not verified) — Wed, 2008-06-18One thing. It doesn't work on 64 bit hardy. The packages are for 32bit only.
Linus is sad ;(
So, no way to get this to run
Anonymous (not verified) — Mon, 2008-06-30So, no way to get this to run on 64bit hardy?
OK, I did just this and
Anonymous (not verified) — Tue, 2008-07-01OK,
I did just this and have logged into my mail. Unfortunately the spell check is not working for me I get an error about starting the spell check engine. Also a lot of my e-mails do not display when I open them, all I get is a black box in the area where the e-mail should be. Do you have any info on this, any help would be great.
Rich
It does no work for Ubuntu
Eric WELLER (not verified) — Sun, 2008-07-06It does no work for Ubuntu 64BIT , even use by sudo dkpg -i pack --force all.......so no way for actual 64 bit laptop ?
Anyway to get source for a make before install ?
Thanks Markus. I wouldn't
Andrew Abogado (not verified) — Tue, 2008-08-19Thanks Markus. I wouldn't have knew that there are Deb packages for this. I was had a hard time installing the "IBM_Lotus_Symphony_Linux.bin." Now it's so easy and had it installed already on my notebook. Lucky me that I'm not running on a 64 bit.
It also does not work on an
Francois (not verified) — Mon, 2008-10-27It also does not work on an AMD processor. Anyone know if and when it will be available. I'd appreciate an email at fkatad-usa.com
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