Setup guide

IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5 Release Notes Installation, migration, upgrade, and configuration
IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5 Meeting Room client requirements
Following are the software requirements and support statements for the Sametime 7.5 Meeting Room
client:
Meeting Room Client
Browsers supported
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Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP Professional
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Mozilla 1.7.12 on Windows XP Professional
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Mozilla 1.7.6 on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 or Novell Linux Desktop 9.0
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Firefox 1.5 on Windows XP Professional, RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0, and Novell Linux Desktop
9.0
Java JDK/JRE supported
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IBM or Sun JDK/JRE 1.4.2 or later - Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP Professional
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IBM or Sun JRE 1.4.2 or later - RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 and Novell Linux Desktop 9.0
IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5 server software requirements
Following are the software requirements and support statements for the Sametime 7.5 server:
Operating Systems
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AIX 5.3; AIX 5.2 - The installation program will run from an XWindows interface. Administrators
also have the option to use a text-based console install version; the console install will run from a
telnet session or equivalent. Full administration privileges are required on unix: must be root.
Note: AIX 5.2 - requires patch level 2 (5200-02).
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Solaris 10 (SPARC); Solaris 9 (SPARC) - The installation program will run from an XWindows
interface. Administrators also have the option to use a text-based console install version; the
console install will run from a telnet session or equivalent. Full administration privileges are
required on unix: must be root.
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Windows 2000 Advanced Server (Service Pack 4)
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Windows 2003 Advanced Edition
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IBM i5/OS, 5722SS1, Version 5 Release 3 or later. For more details, see "Installing and
Managing Lotus Sametime 7.5 for i5/OS" (stinstall.nsf).
Notes:
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On Windows, you must have full administration rights to install Sametime; if not, Sametime will
not install properly. In addition, please note that only Microsoft TCP/IP is supported for Windows.
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On UNIX, you must install as root; if not, Sametime will not install properly.
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The video display color setting on the Sametime server must be higher than 256 colors. The
recommended video display color setting is 16-bit color.
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AIX and Solaris no longer require an X11 interface. Administrators have an option to use the
text-based console install version as well. The console install will run from a telnet session or
equivalent.
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