Installing Lotus Notes 9 on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit LTS

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:

1. Install Synaptic from terminal window
2. sudo apt-get install synaptic
3. Launch synaptic and goto “settings > Repositories”
4. click “other software > add”
5. insert this line in the box "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring main restricted universe multiverse"
6. click ok and close synaptic
7. in terminal “sudo apt-get update”
8. 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.

Installing Lotus Notes 8.5.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit LTS

My office mail supports only Lotus Notes and hence I want to configure it on my ubuntu 12.04 64 bit LTS system. A very good tutorial on this is available here. I will not repeat the steps that are already mentioned at this site. Rather, I will only elaborate on errors that I encountered during my installation and tell you how I got around them.

It is easy to follow the steps from 1 to 5 of this tutorial.

Update:   In step 5, you need to download the getlibs from this link. The original link is not working any more.



 On step 6, when I execute the installation process:

$ sudo getlibs -p libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomeui-0 libxkbfile1 libstartup-notification0 libsepol1 libselinux1 libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-dev librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libavahi-client3 libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libbonoboui2-0 libcroco3 libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2  libgnome2-0 libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome-menu2 libesd0 gtk2-engines libgnome-desktop-2-17 libmotif4 libmotif3 libgnome-desktop-3-0 libavahi-glib1 gtk2-engines-oxygen gtk2-engines-aurora gtk2-engines-qtcurve  gtk2-engines-murrine gtk2-engines-equinox  alsa-base alsa-utils iproute libgnome-desktop-3-2 liborbit2 libbonobo2-0 libgconf2-4 libx11-6 libxt6 libxext6  libc6  libgcc1  libgtk2.0-0  libxkbfile1 libglib2.0-0  libstdc++6 bash libart-2.0-2 libpopt0 libgnomeui-0


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But I think this is not serious enough and I decided to proceed further.



 In step 7, I get the following error when I try to install sametime:

$ sudo dpkg -i ibm-lotus-sametime-8.5.3.i586.deb

dpkg: regarding ibm-lotus-sametime-8.5.3.i586.deb containing ibm-lotus-sametime:i386, pre-dependency problem:

 ibm-lotus-sametime:i386 pre-depends on alsa-base

  alsa-base is not installed.

dpkg: error processing ibm-lotus-sametime-8.5.3.i586.deb (--install):

 pre-dependency problem - not installing ibm-lotus-sametime:i386

Errors were encountered while processing:

 ibm-lotus-sametime-8.5.3.i586.deb

I decide to ignore this as I am not worried about using same time at this time.


Update:  On a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit LTS, I could install the above package for 'sametime' without any error.  

Step 8 also works well.


Now in Step 9, I get the following error when I attempt to run the 'make' command:

$ make

gcc -Wall -Wextra -m32 `pkg-config –cflags gtk+-2.0`–shared libnotesgtkfix.c -o libnotesgtkfix.so -ldl 

/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/libgcc_s.so when searching for -lgcc_s

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s

When I search for this library, I find that it is available at two locations: 

$ locate libgcc_s.so

/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1

/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1

/lib32/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/libgcc_s.so

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/32/libgcc_s.so

Somehow the linker was not able to link the 32-bit version of this library. So I decided to create a hard link inside the folder '/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6'. 

$ sudo rm libgcc_s.so

$ sudo ln /lib32/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 ./libgcc_s.so

It seemed to solve the problem and 'libnotesgtkfix.so' library is created.  


Update: Compiling notes-wrapper works fine. It does not give any error.  So, the make command works properly without any error generating 'libnotesgtkfix.so' library.  Just make sure your 'Makefile' looks something like this:

----------

all:
    gcc -Wall -Wextra -shared -m32 -L/lib32/i386-linux-gnu -lgcc_s `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0`-shared libnotesgtkfix.c -o libnotesgtkfix.so -ldl

clean:
    rm -f libnotesgtkfix.so  
------------------


Also, while applying 'sed' to notes-wrapper, you still need to do the following:


While applying sed to the 'notes-wrapper' file, replace the command 

sudo sed -i ‘s/../notes %F/../notes-wrapper %F/g’ /usr/share/applications/LotusNotes8.5.desktop

with

sudo sed -i ‘s/\.\.\/notes\ \%F/\.\.\/notes\-wrapper\ \%F/g’ /usr/share/applications/LotusNotes8.5.desktop

Step 10 is OK. Only change the LD_LIBRARY_PATH from

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NOTESBIN:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu:$NOTESBIN/jvm/bin/classic:$NOTESBIN/jvm/bin:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

to 

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NOTESBIN:/usr/lib32/:/usr/lib32/i386-linux-gnu:$NOTESBIN/jvm/bin/classic:$NOTESBIN/jvm/bin:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH 

In step 11, You need to include some more symlinks as given below:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i386-linux-gnu/libgnomevfs-2.so.0.2400.4 /usr/lib32/libgnomevfs-2.so.0

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-2.so.0.3200.1 /usr/lib32/libgnome-2.so.0

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i386-linux-gnu/libart_lgpl_2.so.2.3.21 /usr/lib32/libart_lgpl_2.so.2

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i386-linux-gnu/libbonobo-2.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib32/libbonobo-2.so.0

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i386-linux-gnu/libbonobo-activation.so.4.0.0 /usr/lib32/libbonobo-activation.so.4

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i386-linux-gnu/libbonoboui-2.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib32/libbonoboui-2.so.0

If you get any error related to a library not found, just find its location and create a symbolic link within /usr/lib32 folder.

First time, run from the command line as a normal user as shown below: 

$ /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/notes-wrapper

setting locale …

setting notes environment …

starting notes …

`menu_proxy_module_load': /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/notes: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load

(notes:3116): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load type module: (null)

`menu_proxy_module_load': /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/notes: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load

(notes:3116): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load type module: (null)

ERROR: ld.so: object '/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/libnotesgtkfix.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/libnotesgtkfix.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/libnotesgtkfix.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/libnotesgtkfix.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/libnotesgtkfix.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/libnotesgtkfix.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

[03116:00002-4078790848] Error writing to process file pid.nbf, (other applications may be inappropriately accessing this file)SUT: OSSmartUpgradeInit: OSFileCreateDirectory: error: Cannot write or create file (file or disk is read-only)

ERROR: ld.so: object '/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/libnotesgtkfix.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/libnotesgtkfix.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

[03116:00002-4078790848] 02/12/2013 03:17:01.49 PM NEMInit> The declaration for notation '{0}' is invalid! Errorcode=39054.

[03116:00002-4078790848]  Thread=[03116:00002-4078790848]

Stack base=0xFFE2A25C, Stack size = 2268 bytes

PANIC: DESK create failed

Stack base = 0xffe2a25c, Stack size = 4092 bytes 

Fatal Error signal = 0x0000000b PID/TID = 3116/-216176448 

2/12/2013 15:17:02  Running NSD

2/12/2013 15:17:14  Termination is in progress

2/12/2013 15:17:14  Too many crashes, restart disabled

2/12/2013 15:17:14  Terminating tasks

2/12/2013 15:17:19  Freeing resources

2/12/2013 15:17:19  Termination completed

First time, it gives error and lotus note crashes. Ignore the error related to 'libnotesgtkfix.so' not getting preloaded. 

Not able to write the pid.nbf file is the real problem here. It is related to NSD. It does not let you start the notes. It gives a warning and terminates the program.  Little search on google lead to this link.

To solve this, add the following lines to the file /home/lotus/notes/data/notes.ini 

DISABLE_SAVENSDCONFIG=1

and Change the line

NotesProgram=/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/notes 

to 

NotesProgram=/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/notes-wrapper

You might need root permission to edit this file even though it is in your home directory.  Now when you give the above command, it finally starts without any error.  You need to have your ID file in order to configure the Lotus Client.  I also use the modification as suggested in this link as well: 

sudo mv /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith.bak
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gnome-open /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith

The home screen opens after you give the password. But I get an error : CWPCA4003W: Failed to load application from url:nrpc:/ ....  (see the screenshot below). It has to do with some template design problem. I tried refreshing the template, but it did not help.

I am also able to create a local replica and synchronize it with the server. But I am not able to view my mailbox.  I am able to send a mail though. I think the problem lies with updating / upgrading templates.

Update: I don't get any error when I run the command '$ /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/notes-wrapper'. Everything works seamlessly.Put your lotus note ID file into "~/lotus/notes/data/"  folder located in your home directory.