The basics steps of installation are provided here. Basically, it is necessary to have i386 compatible libraries in order to install Lotus notes 9 on a 64-bit machine.
On Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit LTS, ia32-libs is not available. The support has been removed since 13.10. I used the instructions provided here to install ia32-libs. The steps are re-produced here for the sake of the convenience:
- Install Synaptic from terminal window
- sudo apt-get install synaptic
- Launch synaptic and goto “settings > Repositories”
- click “other software > add”
- insert this line in the box "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring main restricted universe multiverse"
- click ok and close synaptic
- in terminal “sudo apt-get update”
- in terminal “sudo apt-get install ia32-libs”
After that install the remaining i386 libraries
$ sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install ia32-libs libgnomeprint2.2-0:i386 libgnomeprintui2.2-0:i386 libbonobo2-0:i386 libbonoboui2-0:i386 libgconf2-4:i386 libgnome-desktop-2-17:i386 libgnomevfs2-bin:i386 libgnomeui-0:i386 libjpeg62:i386 libpam0g:i386 libxkbfile1:i386 ttf-xfree86-nonfree t1-xfree86-nonfree -y
While re-building the ibm-notes-9.0.i586 package, remove "libcupsys2" from its dependency list in the control file apart from those mentioned previously on the above link. In other words, remove the following packages from the "Pre-Depends" line:
gdb, coreutils, unzip, bash, procps, grep, sed, libcupsys2
and rebuild the ibm-notes-9.0-i586.deb package.
$ sudo dpkg-deb -b ibm-notes-9.0.i586/
Now install the debian packages as shown below:
sudo dpkg -i ibm-notes-9.0.i586.deb
sudo dpkg -i ibm-cae-9.0.i586.deb
sudo dpkg -i ibm-feedreader-9.0.i586.deb
sudo dpkg -i ibm-activities-9.0.i586.deb
sudo dpkg -i ibm-sametime-9.0.i586.deb
sudo dpkg -i ibm-opensocial-9.0.i586.deb
I get dependency error while installing 'sametime' package. It is related to "iproute".
So I remove it from the control file within ibm-sametime-9.0.i586/DEBIAN and rebuild the package.
Now Lotus notes works perfectly without any problem.
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