Specifications

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Client installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with RPM
Package
This section covers the client installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2 Desktop and SUSE Linux
Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 XGL (RPM package).
When you download the Notes 8.5 Client RPM Package from Passeport Advantage, it comes as a TAR file,
which is the equivalent of a ZIP file in Windows. First, you must decompress the TAR file
1. Open a terminal window
2. Copy the TAR file in a temporary directory
3. Go to the temporary directory
4. Type the following command
tar -xvf .tar
As a result, you should see the following five RPM files:
• ibm_lotus_cae-8.5.i586.rpm
•
ibm_lotus_activities-8.5.i586.rpm
• ibm_lotus_notes-8.5.i586.rpm
• ibm_lotus_sametime-8.5.i586.rpm
• ibm_lotus_symphony-8.5.i586.rpm
To install the Notes 8.5 client code, the steps are the following:
•
Open a terminal window
•
Go to the temporary directory where the RPM files are present
• Change to the user 'root' with the following command