Install IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bits

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:28:54 +0000

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!

Install Flash 10.1 Beta on Ubuntu 64-bits

admin — Sun, 23 May 2010 08:55:31 +0000

For the people that want to test Flash 10.1 on Ubuntu 64-bits you’ll notice that there is no 64-bits version. There is a simple workaround.

Install first the flashplayer installer through apt-get (This will actually install flash 32-bits with a wrapper so its works on a 64-bits browser

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

Then download the 10.1 version here and put the libflashplayer.so file in /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer

This will override the current 10.0 version.

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