romka@linux

Full gide is here. Short:

1. Download Notes 8.5.1 for debian platforms and extract the files.

2. sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

3. install getlibs from http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/

4. issue the following command:
> sudo getlibs -p libavahi-client3 libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libbonoboui2-0 libcroco3 libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libeel2-2 libgnome2-0 libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome-menu2 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeui-0 libgnomevfs2-0 libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-dev librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libselinux1 libsepol1 libstartup-notification0 libxkbfile1 gtk2-engines-ubuntulooks gtk2-engines-murrine

5. install the Notes Deb files:
sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture ibm-lotus-notes-8.5.1.i586.deb

6. sudo apt-get install ttf-xfree86-nonfree

7. replace some libaries from:
http://linux-aha.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/notes_libs_karmic.tgz in /opt/ibm/lotus/notes with the ones from the link above . Make sure they are owned by root and that they are executable. Set the permissons like the ones of the other libraries in /opt/ibm/lotus/notes

VMWare (server 2.0.2) is as always bringing a lot of surprises…

Now it would not even install without:

1. Change to vmware-server-distrib

2.vwget  http://www.ubuntugeek.com/images/vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30.4-fix.tgz

3. tar xvzf vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30.4-fix.tgz

4. sh vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30.4-fix.sh

Full description is found here

Then a mouse fix is still needed:

gedit /etc/fstab file for bind USB devices by adding next rows:

usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0

Another problem is in weired mouse behavior which is fixed by adding those two lines:
export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
to:
/usr/bin/firefox

Resume from suspend is broken. HUGE post here. Solution for my laptop is to blacklist cardreader:

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:’# Blacklists ricoh_mmc to allow resume from suspend
blacklist ricoh_mmc’