Based on the excellent Installing the Lotus Notes 7.01 Linux Client by
Julian Robichaux, we messed around a bit with the Lotus Notes on Linux.
Essential for Centos 4.4 appears to be the installation of Mozilla 1.7.12
and the creation of /etc/gre.conf
to contain
[1.7.12]
GRE_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12
I had the greatest of trouble to get the Notes installer to launch when the
managed workspace shebang had completed its file copy. It turns out that under
certain circumstances, the variables which have been inserted by the installer
into ~/.bash_profile
aren’t read later on, whereupon Notes startup silently
fails. I fixed that by creating a small launcher, which ought to simplify
things, and which allows ~/.bash_profile
to be rid of all the IBM stuff.
#!/bin/sh
# Notes launcher by JPM
# Next is path to IBM Workplace Managed Client
IBMWMC="$HOME/IBM"
NOTESDIR=$HOME/notes
CLASSPATH="${NOTESDIR}:$CLASSPATH"
export CLASSPATH
PATH="${NOTESDIR}/jvm/bin":"${NOTESDIR}":${PATH}
export PATH
NOTESDATA="${NOTESDIR}/data"
export NOTESDATA
NOTESBIN="${NOTESDIR}"
export NOTESBIN
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${NOTESDIR}/jvm/bin/classic":\
"${NOTESDIR}/jvm/bin":\
"${NOTESDIR}":\
${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
# Ok, go!
"${IBMWMC}/rcp/richclient" \
-personality com.ibm.workplace.noteswc.standalone.linux.personality
More good resources can be found at Lotus Notes on Linux, Chris Whisonant’s Lotus Notes 7.0.1 for Linux, and HOWTO: Install & setup Lotus Notes for Linux on the Ubuntu Forums.