[SOLVED] Lotus Notes 32 chroot problem - howto

Question

Hi,
Edit 1: shortened... perhaps the length was a turn off
Edit 2: changed the title to be more specific (Lotus Notes vs. generic chroot issues)
My plot:
- followed the wiki instructions for setting up a 32bit chroot env so I can run IBM Lotus Notes on 64bit Arch
- on the chroot, I have base, base-devel, xorg, xfce4, xf86-video-intel/vesa, xf86-input-keyboard, xf86-input-mouse, and everything that comes with doing 'yaourt -S lotus-notes-base' installed
- also installed rpm so that I could install the Lotus Notes 8.5 trial in rpm format (has worked on previous Linux distros, so I stuck with rpm (over deb))
- I am able to start Notes, but get a partial frame instead of an actual window (more next post)
One question is what exactly one needs to install to be able to run something from 32bit chroot. It is not exactly clear in the wiki. My gut after fiddling for a long time is that one needs all replacement libs that the program needs to run. This is how I've been approaching things.
Thanks,
John
Last edited by jwhendy (2010-04-21 00:19:43)

Answer 1

Got it!
Here's a howto for anyone who stumbles across this. I also plan to put it up on the wiki when I hear back from the maintainer I contacted.
1. Follow the instructions for setting up a 32bit chroot on x86_64 Arch found HERE. In short, this means:
- create /opt/arch32, setup pacman on the chroot, link the necessary files between /etc and /opt/arch32/etc and sync the chroot's pacman
- install base and base-devel on the chroot
- start the daemon with '/etc/rc.d/arch32 start' and 'xhost +local:'
- add 'arch32' to /etc/rc.conf in the daemons section for future reboots
2. Get Lotus Notes in rpm format for Linux
- Grab the official version from Passport Advantage or your Notes admin
--- Get fixpack 2 from HERE (be sure to get the one for Notes, not Domino)
- As an alternative, the demo version of 8.5 is HERE
--- Get fixpack 1 from HERE
3. chroot into /opt/arch32
$ sudo linux32 chroot /opt/arch32
$ su your-username
###Everything from this point forward will assume that you are in the 32bit chroot. Be sure of this!!!###
4. install yaourt
- follow the instructions on the ArchWiki
- if you run into issues with package-query trying to pull the 64bit version, look HERE
5. install rpm
yaourt -S rpm
6. install necessary Lotus Notes packages:
pacman -S gdb tcsh libart-lgpl alsa-lib atk libbonobo libbonoboui gconf gtk2 libgnome libgnomecanvas libgnomeprint libgnomeprintui libgnomeui gvfs libice libjpeg orbit2 pango libpng libsm libx11 libxcursor libxext libxft libxi libxkbfile libxml2 libxrender libxss libxt libxtst font-bh-ttf audiofile esound gnome-menus libgail-gnome startup-notification gnome-desktop gtk-xfce-engine xterm
- I use xfce. Without gtk-xfce-engine, the selection boxes and some other things didn't look very good. Perhaps the equivalent on KDE would be to install gtk-qt-engine(?) and on gnome to install something like gtk-engine-murrine(?). I don't have enough experience to know this, though.
7. install lotus notes
$ cd /dir/with/ibm_lotus_notes.rpm
$ sudo rpm -ivh --nodeps ibm_lotus_notes.rpm
$ sudo rpm -ivh --nodeps ibm_lotus_notes-fixpack.rpm
8. add some custom libraries to /opt/ibm/lotus/notes
- download THIS
--- if this link is broken at some future date, contact me and I can send the tarball myself (email list below in P.S.)
- then:
$ tar -xvzf notes_libs_karmic.tgz
$ sudo cp libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/
- then do:
$ cd /opt/ibm/lotus/notes
$ sudo chown root:wheel libg*
$ sudo chmod 755 libg*
9. start notes
$ /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/notes
10. setup
- should get a white screen where you accept the license by entering '1' and then pressing enter
- setup your server and user id file
11. post setup
- you can remove xterm with 'pacman -Rs xterm' after accepting the license. It is only needed for that popup window
- the getting started screen will not display properly and I have not figured out how to get it to stop showing up. Everything else I've played with in my short time thus far has worked: general email, calendar, a database...
12. Other helpful references on Lotus Notes and Linux:
- IBM Forum howto
- Howto for Ubuntu
- Another Ubunto howto
- Sys requirements: this is how I put together the list above for which packages to install
--- I also created a list of the output from 'sudo rpm -ivh ibm_lotus_notes.rpm' which will given an error as Arch is not rpm based so none of the dependencies show up as being installed
--- This let me check deps first hand with a lot of 'pacman -Qo /usr/lib/filename' on the 64bit install to see what packages were needed to produce the libraries Notes wanted to have around
Good luck! I do hope to get this on the wiki so that it is preserved in better form that this post...
John
P.S. For personal contact, use the forums or feel free to email: jw [dot] hendy [at] gmail [dot] com