Installing Lotus Notes 8 on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy
Ubuntu isn’t a supported platform for installing Lotus Notes 8, but the installation is surprisingly easy, once you know a few tricks. Before you begin, make sure you have the proper fonts by installing the “ttf-xfree86-nonfree” package:
sudo apt-get install ttf-xfree86-nonfree
If you don’t, your fonts will be horribly ugly, and in many places, down right unreadable.
Next, you need to run the regular setup.sh install script:
sudo ./setup.sh
The installation creates a directory called ~/lotus, (in your home directory) but owned as root. I guess it assumes you logged in as root to run the install. I had to remove that (you could also probably just chown the directory, but Notes recreates it, so either way works):
sudo rm ~/lotus -r -d
I also had to make the binaries readable and executable by every user:
sudo chmod o+rw /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/*
Then I ran this (not sure if it is needed, but I saw it on another website):
sudo chmod -R 755 /etc/lotus
Now you should be able run Notes and everything should be fine:
/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/notes
You should also find an icon under the Applications->Office menu.
Good luck.