Note The procedure shown below is the default Lotus Notes installation process. You can customize what appears on the Notes feature installation screen using the install manifest. You can also use a silent install and specify options on the command line to control install, update, and remove functions.

1. Start the Notes installation program.

2. When prompted, enter your name and company, and then click Next. If this is a multi-user install, "Multi-user Install" is shown selected and inactive. If it is a single user install, "Single user Install" is shown selected and inactive.

3. Choose the features you want to add, upgrade, or remove and click Next.

• Add/Install -- Any feature that was not previously installed is shown selected. You can leave these features as selected in order to install them.
• Update -- Any feature that was installed previously is shown selected. You can leave these features as selected in order to upgrade them.

Note: For multi-user, the features being upgraded are not removed from disk; they remain but are not used. For single user, the features being upgraded are removed from disk.
• Remove -- Any feature that was installed previously is shown selected. You can deselect these features in order to remove them.

Note: For multi-user on Linux®, features that are selected for removal are disabled, not actually removed from disk.

5. Read the installation summary screen and then click Finish.

For information about silent install, see the topic Automating client installation.

For information about customizing Notes installation using the install manifest, see the topic Customizing Notes installation using the install manifest

Running the Notes client as a user after updating, adding, or removing Notes features

The system processes the new install manifest, for example, <install_dir>\framework\rcp\deploy\install.xml, for this user upon first launch.

2. Start Lotus Notes.

Starting Lotus Notes now enables the features that were selected for install or update and also removes or disables the features that were selected for removal.

Products to install and order of installation
Considerations before installing Lotus Notes on Windows
Considerations before installing Notes on Linux
Customizing Notes installation using the install manifest
Installing and upgrading to Notes on Windows for a single user
Installing and upgrading to Notes on Windows for multi-user
Installing Notes on Linux
Uninstalling Notes

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