Ubuntu 13.10 64bit: ibm-notes pre-depends on libgnomeprint2.2-0

[giamma]

Hi,

I tried your script for installing notes 9 in Ubuntu 13.10 64bit.
Unluckily, the installation of the fixed deb fails with the following message:

dpkg -i ibm-notes-9.0.i586-fixed.deb
dpkg: regarding ibm-notes-9.0.i586-fixed.deb containing ibm-notes,
pre-dependency problem:
ibm-notes pre-depends on libgnomeprint2.2-0
libgnomeprint2.2-0 is not installed but configs remain.

dpkg: error processing ibm-notes-9.0.i586-fixed.deb (--install):
pre-dependency problem - not installing ibm-notes
Errors were encountered while processing:
ibm-notes-9.0.i586-fixed.deb

Any suggestion?

[sgh]

Hi

Try this :

$ sudo dpkg --force-depends -i ibm-notes-9.0.i586-fixed.deb
$ sudo apt-get intall -f

Be sure to check what apt-get install intents to do!!!

Søren Holm

[giamma]

thanks a lot, it worked perfectly!

[arijit72]

Hi

I tried it on Ubuntu 14.04. After installation (and copying the wrapper file), the notes splash screen is up and it allows me to accept the license on a command window - but then simply crashes. I wasn't able to install the lingnomeprint2.2 libs as they aren't available for Ubuntu 14.04. Could that be the reason? In that case, is there any way out?

Regards
Arijit

[sgh]

I'm running ubuntu 14.04. Did you fix the deb-file using one of the fix-*.sh scripts? Yo need to do that because some packages have changed name.

[arijit72]

Yes, I did. But it seems the new control file still has those two libraries (libgnomeprint2.2-0 and libgnomeprintui2.2.0). I downloaded and installed them separately from the ubuntu precise repository (along with a couple of things these depend on) - but it's still flaky. Sometimes, executing notes-wrapper opens up notes and I can log-in. But if I exit notes, I have to restart the machine in order to be able to open it up again - otherwise, the notes-wrapper process (and its child notes) simply dies.

[sgh]

Which version of Notes are you running. The 8.5.x control file might not be updates to work with newest ........ oh I just realized that you are running on 64 bit. This in itself is difficult that just sticking to 32 bit (which I do). So I can't help you much on this.

Regarding the shutdown/restart issue I can tell you that notes takes long time to shut down. Watch the process-list or maybe wait around 5-10 minuttes for the other processes to quick.

[arijit72]

I am using Lotus 9.0.

[sgh]

Ok . For me the 32 bit version works out of the box after fixing the debian package.

[PetRose]

Just a recommendation, going forward.
Maybe the FIX script and Wrapper can be enhanced to include observations made by several on Ubuntu 64-bit versions, like this:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/292008/how-to-install-lotus-9
and
http://www.aldeid.com/wiki/IBM-lotus-notes-9.0.1-debian-7.5-64-bit-wheezy (links to above too)
I see a growing need, but I cannot test myself, I have not that many available platforms for testing :-(