I've just managed to install IBM Lotus Symphony Beta for Linux on KUBUNTU 7.04, with no problems. If anyone else wants to try out this new free offering from IBM, go to http://symphony.lotus.com/software/l...hony/home.jspa, and download the .bin file. I had to use the html download, for some reason.
The web site will tell you: "Supported Linux platforms: Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, Redhat Enterprise Linux 5" but I haven't encountered a problem as yet.
Place it in a folder - I used /etc/lotus, which I created. Being a 'user' rather than a 'techy', I tend to start Konqueror as root, from a terminal using sudo konqueror, to carry out such actions. I moved the file, IBM_Lotus_Symphony_Linux.bin, to my lotus folder, changed the permissions, again using Konqueror, so that it was executable, although a techy would tell you to use sudo chmod 755 <file name>.bin.
Next, type sudo ./IBM_Lotus_Symphony_Linux.bin and the file will be unpacked, and a new folder will have appeared called, in my case, /etc/lotus/IBM_Lotus_Symphony_Linux. Contained within is setup.bin, so I typed sudo ./setup.bin and low and behold after some time, Lotus Symphony appeared, up and running. Icons appeared in the KMenu, all applications, office folder.
My intial tries at using Symphony and printing from it, SSheet and WP, have been successful so far but I haven't yet seen an advantage over OOffice but time will tell.
If you have a more elegant way of installing this, please say. Greg
PS. I expect Symphony's future will be discussed further at http://lotussymphonyblog.com/ when this blog is up and running.
The web site will tell you: "Supported Linux platforms: Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, Redhat Enterprise Linux 5" but I haven't encountered a problem as yet.
Place it in a folder - I used /etc/lotus, which I created. Being a 'user' rather than a 'techy', I tend to start Konqueror as root, from a terminal using sudo konqueror, to carry out such actions. I moved the file, IBM_Lotus_Symphony_Linux.bin, to my lotus folder, changed the permissions, again using Konqueror, so that it was executable, although a techy would tell you to use sudo chmod 755 <file name>.bin.
Next, type sudo ./IBM_Lotus_Symphony_Linux.bin and the file will be unpacked, and a new folder will have appeared called, in my case, /etc/lotus/IBM_Lotus_Symphony_Linux. Contained within is setup.bin, so I typed sudo ./setup.bin and low and behold after some time, Lotus Symphony appeared, up and running. Icons appeared in the KMenu, all applications, office folder.
My intial tries at using Symphony and printing from it, SSheet and WP, have been successful so far but I haven't yet seen an advantage over OOffice but time will tell.
If you have a more elegant way of installing this, please say. Greg
PS. I expect Symphony's future will be discussed further at http://lotussymphonyblog.com/ when this blog is up and running.
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