I was going to install Lotus Notes 8.5.3 on openSUSE 12.2... but a good friend of mine (Lotus geek) informed me that the next great version IBM Notes 9.0 is ready as an open beta. He challenged me to live life on the edge again and, I accepted! ![L-)]()
Link to download IBM Notes/Domino 9.0 public beta
Link to the public beta forum.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that IBM has dropped the Lotus brand and name this new major version IBM Notes 9.0 Social Edition. This is a great statement of intent and direction for this product/solution.
Installation:
Pre-requisite: You will need to uninstall previous versions of Lotus Notes (if any). Note that installing both 8.5.x and 9.0b is not supported (officially).
After you have downloaded the tarball for Notes 9.0b, untar it. You will notice a bunch of RPMs and a smartupgrade.sh script. Run/execute the script as root. Its really that simple.![:)]()
[Update on 23 Jan 2013]: If running smartupgrade.sh script did not work for you, don't fret. In the same directory where all the ibm_* rpms reside. Execute, as root, zypper in ibm_*.rpm and let zypper figure out all the dependencies for you. All good.![:)]()
The Notes 9.0b icon can be found via Application Launcher -> Applications -> Office -> More Programs -> IBM Notes. You can right-click and select Add to Favourites so that you don't have to navigate that much just to start it later.
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Note that in your very first startup, it will launch a text console for you to accept the license... just in case you miss it and wonder why you are stuck at the splash screen and nothing happens.
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Link to download IBM Notes/Domino 9.0 public beta
Link to the public beta forum.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that IBM has dropped the Lotus brand and name this new major version IBM Notes 9.0 Social Edition. This is a great statement of intent and direction for this product/solution.
Installation:
Pre-requisite: You will need to uninstall previous versions of Lotus Notes (if any). Note that installing both 8.5.x and 9.0b is not supported (officially).
After you have downloaded the tarball for Notes 9.0b, untar it. You will notice a bunch of RPMs and a smartupgrade.sh script. Run/execute the script as root. Its really that simple.
[Update on 23 Jan 2013]: If running smartupgrade.sh script did not work for you, don't fret. In the same directory where all the ibm_* rpms reside. Execute, as root, zypper in ibm_*.rpm and let zypper figure out all the dependencies for you. All good.
The Notes 9.0b icon can be found via Application Launcher -> Applications -> Office -> More Programs -> IBM Notes. You can right-click and select Add to Favourites so that you don't have to navigate that much just to start it later.
Note that in your very first startup, it will launch a text console for you to accept the license... just in case you miss it and wonder why you are stuck at the splash screen and nothing happens.
Read more »