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Out-dated! Go here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=687679 Note: Lotus Notes is currently unsupported in Ubuntu, but that doesn't mean it doesn't work. Here's my struggles with Ubuntu 7.10. The install process is pretty straight forward. Only issues I had were the GUI refresh, some permissions, and some symbolic links. If you have an issue with blank GUI, no GUI, or unclickable GUI, try changing your window manager. Not sure if this is caused by Compiz or not, so turning off desktop effects may also have the same effect. To fix this, I did the following: sudo apt-get install kwin kwin --replace Then I could read and click like normal. I took defaults, but once installed, I couldn't execute lnotes, so I did: cd /opt/ibm/lotus/notes chmod +x lnotes sudo ln -s *.so /usr/lib/ sudo chmod 755 /etc/lotus/notes/data/shared/ -R ./notes *Note: I had some other "self-inflicted" permission issues too. Only do this if you get errors ($USERNAME is the name y

Lotus Notes 6.x on Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10, etc This is not a tutorial, just a helpful hint for those struggling. I tried for quite some time getting this working. In short, this is what was causing my issues. I had to reinstall with Default Settings set to Windows 98 , NOT Windows XP . Some tutorials state to set nlnotes.exe or notes.exe to Windows 98. I believe this is because older versions of Wine had different defaults. Try this, and let me know if it helps. Note: Newer versions of Lotus Notes (version 8 and higher) have native Linux support. A demo can be downloaded from IBM's Lotus Notes page. -Tres

This will place a "Google Calendar" in your Firefox toolbar Install the " Custom Buttons " plugin for Firefox ( NOT Custom Buttons² ) Click [ this link ] to install the Google Calendar button I've created. Click View >> Toolbars >> Customize , find the calendar icon and drag it to your toolbar. Left-Click or Mouse-Wheel-Click the icon! Does it work? Note : If you'd like to make one for another site, Right-Click >> Clone Button to make a new one. Set the icon to your liking and make sure to convert any images to base64 so you can use them on other computers. -Tres

I've contacted the author of FreeWRL, because the download link for the 32 bit Ubuntu 7.10 is a corrupt archive. For now, the 7.04 version works. sudo apt-get install lesstif2 wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freewrl/freewrl_1.19.8_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i freewrl_1.19.i386.deb -Tres

You can download the package from the webmin site, but this should install it automatically. -Tres sudo apt-get install libnet-ssleay-perl libauthen-pam-perl libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl

undefined symbol: dbus_g_type_get_collection Issues loading AWN Pidgin plugin? Me too. The plugin comes distributed with a "pidgin_awn.so", but no instructions on how to get it working. Unfortunately for lots of people, this plugin is compiled for specific Pidgin versions running on specific kernels, and when you try to compile it, you get errors such as: "pidgin_awn.h: No such file or directory" This is because the required header file isn't distributed with the plugin! Hopefully they'll fix their link. In the mean use this one: [ click here ] Download and extract the plugin Make sure the plugins directory exists: mkdir ~/.purple/plugins Compile the plugin from source: make sudo make install Now launch Pidgin and enable the plugin through Tools >> Plugins >> AWN. If you're luckier than I was, it will work. Mine's still broken (Pidgin 2.3.1). -Tres

LMMS splash idea Location:/usr/share/lmms/themes/default/splash.png

FYI - The Nagios AS/400 Monitoring Interface doesn't seem to work out-of-the-box with english, like it states in the readme. Follow the readme instructions for compiling the language file before deploying to your Nagios server. This is relatively old news, considering this plugin was last released in 2004, but its still usefull. It's released under the GPL, so it will be good until the end of time. java check_as400 -H as400host -u nagios -p yourpassword -v CJ AN_AS400_JOB Thanks to the author for providing a great plugin! -Tres

This only works if you own a copy of the Quake3 CD. If you have a mirror for it, please let me know. I have not been able to get the demo to work in Linux (Except using the Windows demo through Wine). If you've tried to download the Quake3 installer from idsoftware's site, you've figured out it won't work in Ubuntu 7.10 x86_64. I even went to getrpm and got the Fedora Core version (launched, but gave the error "user interface is 3 expected 6). Like usual, I was trying too hard... For some awesome reason, Ubuntu puts Quake3 in its repositories (might have to turn on non-free, or restricted with Synaptic). Open a terminal and type: sudo apt-get install quake3-data It will prompt you for the Quake3 CD. Pop it in your drive and go to work. I'm pretty sure the Windows install CD will work, just provide the quake3 folder location. It will then download the stuff it needs from idsoftware site (20+ minutes). Then it will drop you back at a shell. You want to type

If you are using K3B and get the message: "sometimes using tao writing mode solves this issue" You will have to change writing mode on this (or similar) screen from "Auto" to "TAO". -FBL

Stock Avant-Window-Navigator Quit-Logout Button crashes Emerald in KDE I fixed this by removing the Quit-Logout Applet, and adding a new Launcher dcop kdesktop KDesktopIface logout If you are running Ubuntu, a good icon to use is here: /usr/share/icons/Human/scalable/apps/gnome-logout.svg -Tres