User`s guide

IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes

Lotus Notes

Installing Lotus Notes 8 Beta on Linux

This release note contains the IBM Lotus Notes 8 Beta installation instructions for the Web client

download for Windows, available at the Lotus Notes 8 Beta Downloads Web page.

Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with Lotus Notes 8 Beta, including traditional Lotus

Notes basic functionality. Additional features such as the IBM Lotus Productivity Tools, Activities, and the

Composite Application Editor can also be installed.

Upgrading an existing Lotus Notes 7.x installation Lotus Notes 8 is not supported for Linux. Instead,

uninstall the existing Lotus Notes version prior to installing Lotus Notes 8.

Lotus Notes is available as an install media kit. Lotus Notes can be installed in graphical or silent mode.

For Linux, the Lotus Notes 8 client-only is available in the Notes.ismp.linux installation media kit. The

install media kit consists of the following items:

installation program executable file (setup.sh and setup.bin)

deploy directory (contains the Eclipse install manifest install.xml and plugin

customization.ini)

zipped updateSite directory (contains Eclipse features folder, plugins folder and site.xml)

media.inf file

Considerations before installing -- Read this first

The following information is helpful when installing Lotus Notes 8 on a Linux client:

Note: See the requirements section of the release notes for the latest information on supported hardware

and software.

Lotus Notes 8 installation on Linux supports SLED 10 (XGL enabled or disabled).

Before installing Lotus Notes 8 on a Linux client, you must have Mozilla Firefox, version 1.5+ GTK2

build, Mozilla Seamonkey, or the Mozilla Runtime Environment, version 1.8+ GTK2 build, installed on

your system. The client will not support the earlier Beta requirement of Mozilla 1.7.12. See the "Linux

system requirements" release note for details.

You can install Lotus Notes 8 on Linux in a multi-user environment. Single user install is not

supported.

While a minimum of 512MB of memory is required, 1GB or more of memory is recommended. See the

"Software requirements" section of the release notes for details.

A summary panel displays the disk space footprint for what is being installed. Install also needs

additional temporary disk space. The temporary disk space required is almost as large as the

footprint. If you do not have enough space for the footprint and temporary space, the installer will stop

you from continuing.

You must be logged in as a root user or switch user to root before installing Lotus Notes. Once

installed, non-root users can open and use Lotus Notes.

If you have installed a previous Beta version of Lotus Notes 8, uninstall it before installing Lotus Notes

8. Upgrade from a Beta version of this release is not supported.

Smart Upgrade is not supported in Lotus Notes 8 Beta.

Shared network install is not supported in Lotus Notes 8. Shared network install of Lotus Notes 8

basic configuration remains available.

Roaming user is not supported in Lotus Notes 8. Roaming user in Lotus Notes 8 basic configuration

remains available.

Lotus Notes 8 supports the English US OS locale only.

The IBM productivity tools support the English US OS locale only.