Notes 8 Client on F7 (or F8)

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 19:35 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 10:02 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote:
> > Phil Meyer wrote:
> > > Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> > >> Has anyone found the set of magic incantations that will enable you to
> > >> install Lotus Notes 8.0 on F7 (or F8T3)?
> > >>
> > >> I've had nothing but nightmarish troubles getting any of it to work. All
> > >> of my on-line searches of archives have also turned up nothing.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >>
> > >> Chris
> > >>
> > >> -- 
> > >> ====================================================
> > >> In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
> > >> In practice there is.
> > >>
> > >> --Yogi Berra
> > >>
> > >>   
> > >
> > > Hmmm... Worked fine on several F7 systems here.  No problems at all.
> > >
> > > I really wish it was packageable, but it dumps a ton of stuff into the 
> > > home directory of the person installing it.
> > >
> > > The Notes installer is NOT meant for multi user systems. :(
> > >
> > >
> > After thinking about it...
> > 
> > We all have SUN's java installed and alternatives set so that it is the 
> > default.
> > 
> > We also all have eclipse fully loaded.
> > 
> > Assuming you installed the jdk1.5.0_09 rpm from SUN:
> > 
> > # set java alternatives
> > rm /var/lib/alternatives/java
> > /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java 
> > /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java 1
> > /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java 
> > /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_09/bin/java 2
> > /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac 
> > /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/javac 1
> > /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac 
> > /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_09/bin/javac 2
> > 
> > If you have a different version of SUN's java installed, or if its in a 
> > different place, simply modify the lines above appropriately.
> > 
> > Then try the Lotus Notes install again.
> > 
> > Good Luck!
> > 
> 

Tried this and several other suggestions, as well as a number of things
on the Lotus forums. Nothing works. I get that same Assertion
'c->xlib.lock' failed error message.

<rant>
I'm really not happy with Notes at this point. How does IBM expect to
sell this for real money. F8 by comparison is FREE and actually works!

Reliably at that.
</rant>

OK - now that I'm done with my rant, I'd appreciate other suggestions to
get this going.

--
====================================================
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is.

--Yogi Berra