Update for Ubuntu 12.10 and Lotus Notes

Installing Lotus Notes has forced me once again to re-evaluate installing IBM Lotus Notes.  I am pleased to report that there is less steps involved!

These are the packages that I had to install in order to get Lotus Notes working from apt package manager:

apt-get install ia32-libs libgnomeprint2.2-0:i386 libgnomeprintui2.2-0:i386 \
    libgnomevfs2-0:i386 libgnome2-0:i386 libgnomeui-0:i386 libavahi-glib1:i386 \
    libbonobo2-0:i386 libpopt0:i386 libbonoboui2-0:i386 liborbit2:i386 \
    libart-2.0-2:i386 libgnomecanvas2-0:i386

I believe that it is still necessary to unpack the deb files and fix them.  For simplicity I am recycling my old script to do this.  To fix the packages themselves would require a bit of work (adding ":386") however then producing a patch could be helpful.

SRC_DEB="$(pwd)"
TAR=lotus_notes853_linuxUb_en.tar
TMP_INSTALL=/tmp/notes
NOTES_DEB_MODIFY="notes sametime"
NOTES_VERSION="8.5.3.i586"

if [ ! -e "$SRC_DEB/$TAR" ]; then
   echo "Could not find $TAR tar file in current folder."
   exit 0
fi

[ -e "$TMP_INSTALL" ] && rm -rf "$TMP_INSTALL"
mkdir -p "$TMP_INSTALL"

cp "$SRC_DEB/$TAR" "$TMP_INSTALL"
cd "$TMP_INSTALL"

tar xf "$TAR"

for DEB in $NOTES_DEB_MODIFY; do
   P="ibm-lotus-$DEB-$NOTES_VERSION"
   mkdir "$P"
   cd "$P"
   ar x "../$P.deb"

   mkdir DEBIAN
   tar xf data.tar.gz
   tar xf control.tar.gz -C DEBIAN

   cd DEBIAN
   cat control | sed -re "s/^(Pre\-Depends|Depends|Recommends|Conflicts):\s*.*$/\1:/" > control-mod
   mv control-mod control

   cd ..
   rm control.tar.gz
   rm data.tar.gz
   rm debian-binary

   cd ..
   sudo dpkg-deb -b "$P"
   rm -rf "$P"

   sudo dpkg -i --force-all $P.deb
done

Finally there are some changes to a few of the included libraries that I pulled directly from IBM's community article here.

wget http://www.freetechie.com/upload/lotus_notes/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
wget http://www.freetechie.com/upload/lotus_notes/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
wget http://www.freetechie.com/upload/lotus_notes/libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0
wget http://www.freetechie.com/upload/lotus_notes/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
sudo mv *.so.0 /opt/ibm/lotus/notes

I also needed the following so that I could open attachments.

# Make opening attachments work
sudo mv /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith.bak
sudo ln -s $(which gnome-open) /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith

Creating this shortcut within the Lotus Notes install folder cleared up some of the bugs.

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so \
   /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/libcanberra-gtk-module.so

That's it! There seems to be some issues with the Lotus Notes loading dialog box that were not there in my previous script. Not a big deal as everything else seems to work well. Enjoy!