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

Upgrading an existing Lotus Notes 7.x installation to this Lotus Notes release is not supported for Linux. Instead, uninstall the existing Lotus Notes version prior to installing this Lotus Notes release on Linux.

Lotus Notes is available as an install media kit. You can install Lotus Notes in graphical mode, silent mode, and by using Smart Upgrade.

The install media kit consists of the following items:

• installation program executable file (setup.sh)
• deploy directory (contains the Eclipse install manifest INSTALL.XML and PLUGIN_CUSTOMIZATION.INI files)
• UPDATESITE.ZIP zipped update site directory (contains Eclipse features folder, plugins folder and SITE.XML file)
• media.inf file

Note See the requirements section of the release notes for the latest information on supported hardware and software.

• You must be logged in as a root user or switch user to root before installing Lotus Notes. After the product is installed, non-root users can open and use Lotus Notes.
• Lotus Notes 8 installation on Linux supports RHEL 5 (AIGLX and SELinux disabled) and SLED 10 (XGL enabled or disabled).
• Before installing Lotus Notes on a Linux client, you must have Mozilla Firefox, version 1.5+ GTK2 build, Mozilla Seamonkey, or the Mozilla Runtime Environment, version 1.8+ GTK2 build, installed on your system.

  Note The Notes client does not support the earlier Beta requirement of Mozilla 1.7.12. See the "Linux: Mozilla-based browser required" release note for details.

• You can install Lotus Notes on Linux in a multi-user environment. Single user install is not supported.
• While a minimum of 512MB of memory is required, 1GB or more of memory is recommended. See the "Software requirements" section of the release notes for details.
• When running Lotus Notes 8 on a RHEL 5 Linux client, increase the shared memory size setting to 64MB before starting Lotus Notes 8. The default RHEL 5 shared memory segment is 32MB; Lotus Notes 8 requires more than that.
• A summary panel displays the disk space footprint for what is being installed. Install also needs additional temporary disk space. The temporary disk space required is almost as large as the footprint. If you do not have enough space for the footprint and temporary space, the installer will stop you from continuing.
• If you have installed a Beta 1 or Beta 2 version of Lotus Notes 8, uninstall it before installing this release of Lotus Notes 8. Upgrade from a Beta 1 or Beta 2 version is not supported. You should not need to uninstall Lotus Notes 8 Beta 3 prior to installing and upgrading to this Lotus Notes 8 release.
• Shared network install is not supported in Lotus Notes 8. Shared network install of Lotus Notes 8 basic configuration remains available.
• Roaming user is not supported in Lotus Notes 8. Roaming user in Lotus Notes 8 basic configuration remains available.
• Lotus Notes 8 supports the English US OS locale only.
• IBM Lotus Productivity Tools support the English US OS locale only.
• The installation path cannot contain special characters such as # or $.
• Only one instance of Lotus Notes 8 should be installed on a client workstation at any given time.
• Once you click "Install" on the Lotus Notes 8 installation panel, allow the installation to complete. Ending the Notes installation process prematurely can leave files in an unstable state, and may also leave empty folders and miscellaneous files on your system. If you experience problems installing Lotus Notes 8 after exiting out of Notes 8 installation prior to its completion, see the release note and help topic entitled "Cleaning a previous Notes 8 installation from the client" as below.
• If installation does not complete successfully, uninstall the program using the instructions in Uninstalling Notes and reference the information in Cleaning a previous Notes 8 installation from your client.

Lotus Notes pre-installation checklist
Setting up client installation and installation methods
Installing Notes on Linux
Updating, adding, and removing installed Notes features
Automating client installation using a silent install
Customizing client installations using the tuner
Customizing Notes installation using the install manifest
Uninstalling Notes

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