Lotus Notes on Arch Linux 32bit

This project contains a set of Shell scripts for installing Lotus Notes on Arch Linux 32bit. Since some of the dependencies of Lotus Notes are only available from AUR, it is required to have yaourt installed.

First of all, it is necessary to obtain Lotus Notes RPMs, which can be downloaded from IBM's web site: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/notes/

The following RPMs should be placed into the cloned repository's root folder:

• ibm_lotus_activities-<version>.i586.rpm
• ibm_lotus_cae-<version>.i586.rpm
• ibm_lotus_feedreader-<version>.i586.rpm
• ibm_lotus_notes-<version>.i586.rpm
• ibm_lotus_sametime-<version>.i586.rpm
• ibm_lotus_symphony-<version>.i586.rpm

Where <version> is replaced by the actual version of Lotus Notes. The version number should be written to the notes-version file, which is currently set to 8.5.3.

Then, you basically just need to run the following two scripts:

./01-install-deps.sh
./02-install-notes.sh

The installation script also installs a GTK fix from https://github.com/sgh/lotus-notes_gtk2.23.3

Once the installation is completed, Lotus Notes can be started by running the notes script:

./notes

To simplify the starting process, the notes scripts can be copied to ~/bin, then Lotus Notes can be started by simply executing:

notes

More information on installing Lotus Notes on Arch Linux, including the 64bit version, can be found at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lotus_Notes_in_32bit_Chroot

License

The scripts are released under the Apache 2.0 license

Copyright (C) 2012 Anton Beloglazov