Domino on ubuntu

[gilagila]

Helo
anyone have any "how-to" for me to read on installing Domino 7 on linux

thx

Patrick

[faperezg]

I have found and read some installation howtos, but almost all of them presume that you know the linux packages or libraries installation way. Well, this is not always true. I am an expert Lotus Domino programmer since version 3.30, but I am a rookie in the linux administration.

I have spent hours reading howtos that say: install or link the xxx.so library, but no one says HOW! Another pages suggest installing the yyyy.rpm package using alien, and put the command to do that. But I want a pure ubuntu / debian installation, so, why I should use a Red Hat package? Yes, I know that it works, but is a matter of personal style!

Well, I won't bother you with more useless details. I have installed the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS SERVER, and obviously, it has no graphical interface, so, I should know all the linux console commands to do the job. Let's begin!

First, allow all the apt repositories. Open the sources.list file with this command:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Uncomment all te lines begginning with 'deb ' . Save the file using Ctrl-X and tell apt to reload them:

sudo apt-get update

Next, install the prerequisites

sudo apt-get install libstdc[+][+]2[.]10-.*
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
sudo apt-get install libxmu6
sudo apt-get install libxp6
sudo apt-get install libxp-java
sudo apt-get install libxtst6

Those prerequisites are libraries needed for Domino 7 to run, and the JVM to start.

Now, Domino needs an user to run. The domino installation package suggests the user 'notes' but I prefer 'domino', so, I created it.

sudo adduser domino

This will create the user domino and the group domino. You must give a password for this user.

Now, begin the Domino installation. I prefer to copy the tar package in the /tmp folder. Let's suppose that you have a cd with the package, and the package name is domino7.tar

sudo mount /media/cdrom
cp /media/cdrom/domino7.tar /tmp

Change to the destination folder and extract the package

cd /tmp
sudo tar xvf domino7.tar

This will create a folder /tmp/linux where the files needed for installation are. Change to that folder and start the installation

cd linux
sudo ./install

Follow all the instructions. You should note two things:

- The user and group selected for domino installation should be the same as the one you created, in this example, is 'domino'
- The installation package will ask you how to create the new server: Manual Server Setup, Local Server Setup and Remote Server Setup. I prefer the Remote Server Setup. If you selected this option, the domino server will run in listen mode, waiting for a remote machine to connect on the 8585 port. Then, go to a windows machine connected to the network, install the Lotus Notes R7 client and in the Start Menu - Programs - Lotus Applications you will find the Remote Server Setup icon. Click it and enjoy the Lotus Domino installation configuration.

Well, you should have your server running. But, this is not all the procedure if you want to start domino as a service. This requires some extra steps:

Find a rc-init script in the internet. I like the one written by Jens Vogel (thank you very much Jens) which you can find at http://desktux.xs4all.nl. I modified it with my installation preferences, which are:

- binary installation folder: /srv/lotus
- data installation folder: /data/lotus
- user: domino
- group: domino
- output: /dev/tty12

The last option is the most important. You can have all the server console in a file, but I prefer it dumped to a virtual console. If you choose this way, the output of the console will be written to this console and you will see it if you press Alt - F12.

After modifying the script, save and copy it to the /etc/init.d folder:

sudo cp /etc/init.d

Change to this folder:

cd /etc/init.d

Change the permissions of the new copied file:

sudo chmod 0744 domino

Finally, tell linux to start domino as a service:

sudo update-rc.d domino defaults

This will create some links in the appropiate folders. Domino will start when you reboot your machine and will dump all the console output into the tty12.

I hope this howto helps someone with very little experience on linux to install Domino 7 on ubuntu.

[Parme]

This works fine in Dapper but in a fresh new installation of Edgy it seems non work. The problem is in install file that cannot found found something not specified. It works ok a Dapper upgraded to Efty.

[faperezg]

what error dou you get? I have installed a fresh copy of edgy and followed the same procedure, and it worked fine. May be if you decribe the error, I can help

[Parme]

Ciao. Sorry for the big late in answer but I was really busy in past days. I've a fresh copy on Ubyntu 6.10 on vmware server, not the server edition but the desktop edition. Here the output

[: 131: TOOLS/NLS/-E: unexpected operator
[: 131: tools/nls/-e: unexpected operator
[: 131: tools/nls/-e;1: unexpected operator
.: 1: -e: not found

It's obviously something that don't work with installation file but I didn't spend so much time beacause here we are using mostly Dapper and there's no problem there...

[hhamme]

Try this command instead, worked for me....:
./install

Make sure you are in the linux or linux\domino directory. Depends where the install file is stored.

[Parme]

Tha was the output of the ./install files on the right directory. The same procedure ( untar-cd-./install ) works fine on dapper..... But thank for suggesting to use ./install. it was a really bright idea....

[stage]

I had the same problem with the ./install command

Resolved with this:

sudo su
./install

thanks for the tutorial ! It really helped me out !

[stage]

Installation went good.

But now i have an error after installation, when server tries to start. It seem like something is wrong with Java.

I searched everywhere, but can't seem to find the solution to start server and do the remote setup thing.

I use Edgy Server X86 (6.10) and running domino 7.0.2 on VMware.

I installed every package faperezg mentionned in is post.

I heard Blackdown java might do the job but, I couldn't install it

Here is the output of my error:


And here is the end of /local/notesdata/setuplog.txt :




So if anyone has a clue, it would be greatly appreciated !

Thanks

Eric

[stage]

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