IBM Notes

Introduction

IBM Notes is a collaborative client software platform from IBM.

This page explains how to install IBM Notes 9.0.1 on 18.04 64bit (as of 2020-may, it does not work with Ubuntu 20.04)

Note: Procedure it is based on the link below. All credits go to CTXz:

https://github.com/CTXz/ibm-notes-9.0.1_Ubuntu_installer

Get the software

• Notes trial can be downloaded from http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/category/messaging/
• Scripts for fixing dependencies can be downloaded from https://github.com/CTXz/ibm-notes-9.0.1_Ubuntu_installer

Let's prepare required files with the following folder structure

IBM/ (empty subdirectory)

NOTES_9.0.1_LINUX_DI_EN_Evaluation.tar (downloaded software)

Ubuntu-IBM-Notes-9.0.1.sh (downloaded script)

Install package

From the previously prepared directory, run:

tar xvf NOTES_9.0.1_LINUX_DI_EN_Evaluation.tar -C IBM

sudo bash Ubuntu-IBM-Notes-9.0.1.sh IBM/ibm-notes-9.0.1.i586.deb

Run IBM Notes

/opt/ibm/notes/notes

Errors and solutions

1) Ubuntu 20.04 (couldn't make it work out)

sudo apt install libpangoxft-1.0-0:i386

sudo apt install libpangox-1.0-0:i386 (unable to locate this package, last version seems to be for 19.10 but it does not work with 20.04)