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

The install kit for Notes on Apple Mac OS X consists of the following items:

• Notes installation Meta-package (.mpkg)
• Uninstaller application

• The installation program will detect and upgrade an existing Notes installation to the current Notes installation.
• If you are upgrading Notes, turn off all options in the Application Sharing tab of the Shared System Preferences page.
• You can install Notes in a multi-user environment. Single user install is not supported.
• Shut down all applications before installing or upgrading to this release of Notes, including anti-virus software.
• Users must have administrator-level privileges to install.
• Installation and use of Notes on a USB drive is not supported for Notes standard configuration.
• Notes roaming user does not support switching a user ID, as noted in the user interface response.
• The install source path cannot contain any of the following characters:

  : " < > ! # % ' = ;

• The install destination path cannot contain any of the following characters:

  : " < > ! # % ' = ;

  Notes installation directories for Mac OS X
  Recommended and default HCL Notes installation and upgrade directories on an Apple Macintosh OS X system are as follows.

Related concepts
Notes installation directories for Mac OS X
Uninstalling Notes from a Mac OS X client

Related tasks
Installing and upgrading Notes on Mac OS X
Adding or removing installed Notes features within a release

Related information
Which versions of Notes are supported on which Mac OS versions