Finally IBM is making it easy. Notes 8.5.2 installed finally without hassle. I had a code-drop that also didn’t work properly. The final is a much better piece of software.

First install the dependencies:

sudo aptitude install libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-0

After that install the DEBs with –force-architecture switch. No need to force everything.

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture ibm-lotus-notes-8.5.2.i586.deb

And if you want sametime also:

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture ibm-lotus-sametime-8.5.2.i586.deb

That’s it, start the client running

/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/../notes

You will see the splash screen, it will disappear and do sometime nothing, just wait and a terminal window will popup with the license agreement. If you agree you will see the updated GUI Lotus Notes!

Commentary

  1. Geoff wrote on 31. Aug 2010

    Finally!!!!!

    Thank you. This works great.

  2. admin wrote on 03. Sep 2010

    Hi Roland

    I understand german but please try to keep it english.

    Wich version of Ubuntu do you have and is it 32 bits and 64 bits?

    Thanks

  3. Roland wrote on 03. Sep 2010

    Hallo,

    beim Aufruf kommt der Fehler

    /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/../notes: error while loading shared libraries: libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    die lib ist aber vorhanden

    ls -l /usr/lib/libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2010-09-03 09:07 /usr/lib/libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0 -> libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0.1.0

    was kann ich tun ?

  4. admin wrote on 07. Sep 2010

    Hi Roland,

    I see, I did a upgrade and had these libraries already. I will edit the blog post with clean install. If you look at my other blog item: Install Lotus Notes 8.5 you should run the getlibs command. Rhis command download the 32bits libraries that Notes need.

  5. Roland wrote on 07. Sep 2010

    Hallo,

    i am not so god in english.
    It is the ubuntu version 10.04 64-bits.

  6. Roland wrote on 07. Sep 2010

    Hallo admin,

    i do so, but

    sudo dpkg -i libgnomeprint2.2-0_2.18.6-1build2_i386.deb
    dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von libgnomeprint2.2-0_2.18.6-1build2_i386.deb (–install):
    Paket-Architektur (i386) passt nicht zum System (amd64)
    Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
    libgnomeprint2.2-0_2.18.6-1build2_i386.deb

    what can i do ?

  7. JR Bye wrote on 16. Sep 2010

    This worked flawlessly. I was completely functional in 20 minutes.

    Thank you very much for the walk through. It is much appreciated.

    J.R.

  8. admin wrote on 13. Oct 2010

    I already have update to 10.10 and it still works ;)

  9. Mane wrote on 13. Oct 2010

    I almost lost hope that it ever will work as good as it works now :-)
    already anybody tested on 10.10?

  10. bouriquo wrote on 14. Oct 2010

    I have tried to on 10.10 but for me doesn’t work. I have this error :

    ../notes: error while loading shared libraries: libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    Thanks

  11. bouriquo wrote on 14. Oct 2010

    Sorry i was forgotten this :D

    wget http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/getlibs-all.deb
    sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb
    sudo getlibs -p libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomeui-0 libxkbfile1 libstartup-notification0 libsepol1 libselinux1 libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-dev librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libavahi-client3 libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libbonoboui2-0 libcroco3 libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libgnome2-0 libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome-menu2 libesd0 gtk2-engines-murrine gtk2-engines libgnome-desktop-2-17

  12. admin wrote on 14. Oct 2010

    Correct you also needed that :-)

  13. Mane wrote on 15. Oct 2010

    installed the libs with getlibs.
    Now I can start Notes. But when I want to configure Notes then I can enter hostname or IP of Domino but Notes always says “No reply from server”.
    In terminal I get this error messages:

    (:8154): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-ibus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

    (:8154): Gtk-WARNING **: Loading IM context type ‘ibus’ failed

  14. Mane wrote on 15. Oct 2010

    don’t know why, but now it works…

  15. Roland wrote on 18. Oct 2010

    i have start install ubuntu new and now it works.

  16. Aly wrote on 29. Nov 2010

    Please help me solve the problem. There are installed Lotus Notes on Ubuntu 10.04. The client works only with smart cards. Which driver I need to provide for interaction with the smart card? Where to find this driver. (In Windows it is located in the / system32).

  17. luke wrote on 11. Mar 2011

    Working nicely for me on 10.04-64.

    Dumped the following text into a shell script, put the notes 8.5.2 deb in the same directory and then executed the script.

    #!/bin/bash
    sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
    wget http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/getlibs-all.deb
    sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb
    sudo getlibs -p libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomeui-0 libxkbfile1 libstartup-notification0 libsepol1 libselinux1 libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-dev librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libavahi-client3 libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libbonoboui2-0 libcroco3 libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libgnome2-0 libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome-menu2 libesd0 gtk2-engines-murrine gtk2-engines libgnome-desktop-2-17
    sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture ibm-lotus-notes-8.5.2.i586.deb

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