Monday, October 29, 2007

Lotus Notes 8 on SLackware 12

Today I successfully managed to install IBM Lotus Notes 8 onto my Slackware 12 workstation. To be able to install Lotus Notes I installed GnomeSlacky wich is a project for porting Gnome in a non intrusive way into Slackware. I needed this since Lotus Notes Depends on some of the Gnome project libraries. The installation went quit good apart from the final step wich hang the first time. However after looking at the installation logs I found out that the last step tries to start e local webserver on port 80, since I had Apache running on my workstation the setup could not complete and halted. Thus I stopped my Apache and relaunched the setup, this time all went ok. I started Lotus by typing "/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/notes" into the command line, ( I need to create a shortcut on my desktop or menu for this) and I received the common lotus notes configuration wizard as you get on a windows machine. Once finished you have a nice working Lotus Notes 8 running on Linux.

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