Friday, May 11, 2007

Lotus Notes V7 on Fedora Core 6

Well, after all the setup, my new FC6 deserves Lotus Notes client (I don't want to go back to FC3 anymore).
So, here are the steps to install IBM Lotus Notes For Linux on Fedora Core 6:
1. Unzip C93D1NA.zip to ~/notes_install
2. Unzip personality.zip to plugin directory
3. chmod +x ~/notes_install/plugin/setup_wct_platform.bin
4. chmod +x ~/notes_install/setuplinux.bin
5. cp ~/notes_install/setuplinux.bin ~/notes_install/plugin/updateSite/features/
com.ibm.workplace.notesinstall.linux.feature_7.0.1.0000-0900/bin/linux/
6. Run ~/notes_install/plugin/setup_wct_platform.bin -console
7. Sometimes notes plugin is not installed (don't ask me why), so run the installation manually by:
cd to that long directory
./setuplinux.bin -console
You can recognize that notes plugin is not installed when there is no ~/notes directory.
8. Go to ~/notes (cd ~/notes).
9. ln -s /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6 libXm.so.3
10. Run notesstart and finish the setup (old lotus notes way).

Here is the content of my notesstart located in ~/bin:
#!/bin/sh

NOTESBIN=/home/$USER/notes
NOTESDATA=/home/$USER/notes/data
NOTESDIR=/home/$USER/notes/data
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NOTESBIN:$NOTESBIN/jvm/bin/classic:$NOTESBIN/jvm/bin
:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
PATH=$NOTESBIN/jvm/bin:$NOTESBIN:$PATH
CLASSPATH=./:$NOTESBIN/:$CLASSPATH
export NOTESBIN NOTESDATA NOTESDIR LD_LIBRARY_PATH PATH CLASSPATH

/opt/IBM/Workplace\ Managed\ Client/rcp/richclient -personality com.ibm.workplace.noteswc.standalone.linux.personality


To have the information complete, I was using Lotus Notes on FC3 for a long time and installation went without any problems as described by IBM.

Enjoy,
P.

P.S. Many thanks to guys discussing in this thread, where I figured out what how to fix my Notes.

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