Ketan's Musings

This morning I tried installing Lotus Notes 7.0 on Ubuntu Edgy-Eft.

I ran into the notoriously infamous “Could not validate mozilla version” message, that I’d seen a lot of times before. In case you also run into this problem. Here’s a howto to get you out:

Note: These steps are to be run as root

1. Install libmotif3:
sudo apt-get install libmotif3

2. Install gtk1.2:
sudo apt-get install libgtk1.2

3. Remove dash:
sudo apt-get remove dash

4. Create a location where you want to install Lotus Notes:
sudo mkdir -p "/opt/IBM/Workplace Managed Client/"

5. Make this directory writable by you:
sudo chown ketan.ketan "/opt/IBM/Workplace Managed Client/"

Note: None of these steps are to be performed as root

1. Extract the Lotus Notes package:
unzip /opt/downloads/C93D1NA.zip -d notes

2. Change into the directory where you just extracted notes:
cd notes

3. Extract the Lotus Notes installer:
unzip Personality.zip

4. Change some file permissions:
chmod 755 setuplinux.bin setup_wct_platform.bin

5. Copy the setup file to the correct location:
cp setuplinux.bin updateSite/features/com.ibm.workplace.notesinstall.linux.feature_7.0.1.0000-0900/bin/linux

6. Now we are all set up to install:
./setup_wct_platform.bin

That should be able to get you through the installer. Add a comment on this entry in case you are unable to get things done.

Update on 23rd March, 2007: Does lotus notes not work even after these instructions ?

Wayne Beaton writes more on the eclipse java compiler.

The page writes:

“The XO machines are still being tweaked, and [OLPC UI] Sugar isn’t expected to be tested by any kids until February. By July or so, several million are expected to reach Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, Thailand and the Palestinian territory. Negroponte said three more African countries might sign on in the next two weeks. The Inter-American Development Bank is trying to get the laptops to multiple Central American countries.”

Sony has recently added PS3 support on kernel 2.6. This comes at a time when Microsoft Says PS3 Linux Not ‘Competitive’ To XNA.

Interesting… reminds me of Steve Ballmer saying:

You know who I think out biggest competitor is? Linux. Linux, Linux, Linux! Burn it on your foreheads, people: Linux!

Amen…

I’m back after a refreshing change. This was a week long workshop on Linux as an Operating System.

Participants happened to be lecturers and professors from colleges in the state. My talk revolved around Process Management, related api, and the tools used for this.

I’m all charged up; and raring to go at my next assignment.