Some (more) Rants on Lotus Notes 7.0 on Ubuntu
This post is in addition to my previous Musings on installing lotus notes on Ubuntu.
Here’s another way to make Lotus Notes not work on Ubuntu.
Start up your print server.
Not amused ?
Raghu pointed out to the fact that lotus notes stopped working the day he got his printer installed. It was a surprise to me, but this happened today when I got a printer setup on my laptop.
Try stopping the cups print server, and the hplip services, and start lotus notes. That should get lotus notes running. Start the above services, and lotus notes would stop working!
Amazing, but true. It’s all software written by some brothers in the same trade as I am.
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Ketan Padegaonkar’s Blog » Blog Archive » HOWTO: Installing Lotus Notes 7.0 on Ubuntu
22 Mar 07 at 6:41 pm
I’ve gotten around the printer thing quite successfully…
The issue is apparently that the way Ubuntu sets up CUPS the ‘Default Printer’ is not specified in the manner that Notes expects. If you don’t have a ‘Default Printer’ in your printers.conf file Notes blows up.
in /etc/cups/printers.conf:
find your printer definition… add the word ‘Default’
to
restart CUPS, and voila, working Notes!
Bryn
7 May 07 at 6:34 am
Hmm… Looks like this comment thing doesn’t like angle brackets… Anyhow there was supposed to be an example in there…
find your printer definition
Printer LaserJet-4350
change it to
DefaultPrinter LaserJet-4350
just pretend there’s angle brackets around those!
Bryn
7 May 07 at 6:35 am
Thanks for the printer fix, notes is almost completely functional for me now. Are you able to view image attachments of any type other than .png? I’m sure it is some type of MIME problem but I don’t know where to fix it.
audreyj
25 Jul 07 at 3:03 am
Lotus Notes uses native components to show most file types. I’ve observed this same issue on my computer as well. I guess the only solution for now is to wait for Lotus Notes 8.0
Ketan
25 Jul 07 at 8:43 am
I have discovered if I right-click on the attachment of type jpeg and select view it will actually display in a new tab which is good enough. I just can’t select open/open with or edit/edit whit I think I need to an image editor like gimp to the config somewhere if I want an external launch.
audreyj
25 Jul 07 at 7:30 pm