

It's 68 pages and includes a lot of illustrations. Instant IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 How-to is a short book by computer standards.
IBM LOTUS NOTES 8.5.3 ZIP
Download the whole thing as a ZIP and unpack it anywhere in your home folder or desktop. To get the applications in Notes to render correctly for the version of GTK it uses, you’ll need to grab PetRose’s libnotesgtkfix.so fix.
IBM LOTUS NOTES 8.5.3 INSTALL
If it cites other packages, install those and re-run dpkg. If you forgot to install any of the above packages, it will likely cite those. If it fails for any reason, note the error. If completed successfully, after about five minutes or less you should be returned to the prompt.

IBM LOTUS NOTES 8.5.3 UPDATE

I ended up going with 32-bit Peppermint Six to eliminate any cross-platform problems that might arise, so if you’re planning a fresh Linux build, consider that route unless you need 64-bit support. It’s actually not too hard, but does require you know a little of the way around Ubuntu.Īmd64 build notes: Most Notes 8.5 packages are i386/i586, so you may need to grab 32-bit versions of the packages listed below by adding :i386 to the package names when using apt-get. For the purposes of this post, I recommend using Ubuntu 14.04 or any distro based on 14.04 or higher. Based on the fact that the libgnomeprint packages are still availible in the 12.04 Precise repo, that more than likely means 12.04 was the last version it installed to without any of this monkey business, but your results may vary. To benchmark this, I installed the DEB in an Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix VM to see if anything breaks there, and the package installs without any additional effort whatsoever. Since we’re working with version 8 here and not 9, naturally it is going to depend on some of those older packages. As I am often told, they like to change and remove packages, and that breaks dependencies on older applications.

Thanks to the tireless efforts of Debian maintainers, the crux of the problems I faced getting it installed were deprecated and changed packages in 14.04. Long story short, I got it to work, but I had to pull some strings to do it. I noticed the TAR for it in our company install folder. It began sort of as a “this would be cool to have” moment as I wanted to start using my netbook at work as an extra half-screen. Just for funsies, I took an awkward trip down LINUXLAND recently trying to install Lotus Notes 8.5.3 on my netbook running Peppermint Six, which is built on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty.
