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Notes Smart Upgrade for Notes Clients running on Linux
Starting with Notes 8.5, you can now upgrade Notes Clients running on Linux desktops using RPM (SuSe,
RedHat) or DEB (Ubuntu) packages.
When configuring for Lotus Notes 8.5 and greater on Linux client users using Smart Upgrade, you must
configure Smart Upgrade using a specific procedure.
As mentioned in the introduction, Notes installation on a Linux client uses an RPM or a DEB install package,
based on your Linux platform. If you are using an RPM or DEB kit, you must uninstall your existing Notes
client using the ISMP uninstaller supplied with your installed release. If you have a pre-Notes 8.5 release
installed and then start the process of upgrading to Notes 8.5 with an RPM or DEB kit, you may encounter
problems.
IMPORTANT: An upgrade kit is different than a full kit, as some files mentioned below like smartupgrade.sh
appears only in the upgrade kit.
For 8.5 and greater, these scenarios are available:
• For 8.5 users who want to upgrade to 8.5.1 or greater using Smart Upgrade, follow the steps below
in the section "Configuring Lotus Notes 8.5 Smart Upgrade on Linux". The file smartupgrade.sh in
webkit tar file can be used as a sample script to write your own setup.sh or rename
smartupgrade.sh to setup.sh directly.
• For 8.5.1 users who want to upgrade to newer builds using Smart Upgrade, use the webkit tar
directly or create your own smartupgrade.sh script and tar file to customize the Smart Upgrade
behavior.
Configuring Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade on Linux
When configuring for Lotus Notes SmartUpgrade for Linux client users, you must configure for
SmartUpgrade using a specific procedure.
Prior to installing Notes 8.5 on Linux, you must uninstall your existing Notes client using the ISMP uninstaller
supplied with your release.
Smart Upgrade for RPM-style install kits is similar to that for ISMP; the difference is the
content of the update kit. An update kit for RPM contains several RPM packages and a setup.sh shell script .
You must also create and attach an update kit to the SmartUpgrade database, as below.
1. Create a Smart Upgrade database.
2. Create an update kit.
3. Open the Smart Upgrade database, click “New Kit”, complete the form fields, and attach the update
kit to the kit document, or designate a shared network drive in the kit document.
4. Click Save & Close.
How to use Smart Upgrade for Notes Client on Linux
Smart Upgrade for Notes users on Linux using an RPM or DEB kit is similar to the pre-Notes 8.5 ISMP
method; the difference being the content of the update kit. An update kit for RPM/DEB contains several
packages and a required shell script. In 8.5, this script was called setup.sh as in 8.5.1, the name was
changed to smartupgrade.sh.