Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with IBM® Notes®, including traditional Notes functionality. Additional sidebar applications can also be installed.

Notes is installed on Linux™ using either a deb package or rpm package. See Installing and upgrading Notes on Linux in the related links.

For related upgrade information, see Upgrade Cookbook: Upgrading to Lotus Notes® and Domino® 8.5.x in the Notes and Domino wiki.

Additional considerations are as follows:

• You must be logged in as a root user or switch user to root before installing Notes. After Notes is installed, non-root users can open and use Notes.
• Shut down all applications before installing or upgrading to this release of Notes, including anti-virus software.
• When installing Notes from the product CD or DVD onto an RHEL 5 Linux client, mount the media drive using exec as a gconf mount option. You can then insert the Notes installation media and run the installer by typing ./setup.sh.
• You can install Notes in a multi-user environment. Single user install is not supported.
• Shared network installation is not supported for Notes standard configuration.
• Installation and use of Notes on a USB drive is not supported for Notes standard configuration.
• Notes roaming user does not support switching user ID.
• The install destination path cannot contain any of the following characters:

  \ ; : % # < > , " ! | ?

• Only one instance of Notes should be installed on a client workstation at any given time.
• If installation does not complete successfully, uninstall Notes and reinstall. If uninstall is not successful, see Cleaning a previous or partial Notes installation from your client in the related links.
• Consider using the autostart capability described in the related topic on reducing Notes startup time for Linux

Related tasks
Installing and upgrading Notes on Linux
Reducing Notes startup time for Linux users
Uninstalling Notes from a Linux client
Cleaning a previous or partial Notes installation from your client