Lotus Domino Administrator 8.5 Help - Considerations for installing and deploying Notes on Linux

NOTES CLIENT INSTALLATION AND UPGRADE

Considerations for installing and deploying Notes on Linux
Before installing IBM® Lotus® Notes® on a Linux® client, you should be familiar with the following information.

Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with Notes, including traditional Notes functionality. Additional features such as the IBM® Lotus® Symphony™, Connections, IBM® Lotus® Sametime® (integrated), and the Composite Application Editor can also be installed.

Notes is installed on Linux using either a deb package or an rpm package. For deb and rpm package file names, see "Installing and upgrading Notes on Linux" subtopics.

For related upgrade information, see the Lotus Notes Support site, especially Tech Note titles containing the phrase "Upgrade Central: Planning your upgrade to Lotus Notes" and the Lotus Notes and Domino wiki.

Other considerations are as follows:

You must be logged in as a root user or switch user to root before installing Notes. After Notes is installed, non-root users can open and use Notes.
When installing Notes from CD onto an RHEL 5 Linux client, mount the CD drive using exec as a gconf mount option. You can then insert the Notes installation CD and run the installer by typing ./setup.sh. By default, RHEL 5 does not allow execute permission on a mounted CD drive.
To properly mount the RHEL 5 client drive, use the following command:
gconftool-2 /system/storage/default_options/iso9660/mount_options -s "[exec]" -t list --list-type=string
Optionally, you can mount the drive using your UID settings:
gconftool-2 /system/storage/default_options/iso9660/mount_options -s "[exec,uid=]" -t list --list-type=string
After installation is complete, change back to the default permissions as below.
gconftool-2 /system/storage/default_options/iso9660/mount_options -s "[]" -t list --list-type=string
You can install Notes in a multi-user environment. Single user install is not supported.
If you have installed a Beta version, uninstall it before installing the release version.
Shared network installation is not supported for Notes standard configuration.
Installation and use of Notes on a USB drive is not supported for Notes standard configuration.
Notes roaming user does not support switching a user ID.
The installation path cannot contain special characters such as # or $.
Only one instance of Notes should be installed on a client workstation at any given time.
If installation does not complete successfully, uninstall Notes and reinstall. If uninstall is not successful, see "Cleaning a previous or partial Notes installation from your client."
Consider using the autostart capability described in "Reducing Notes startup time for auto-start on Linux."