Just Say Know

I just thought I’d post this info here because this application is listed on http://www.winehq.org as broken.

To get Lotus Notes 7.0.3 (or 8.0 Basic) working under wine in Linux (using opensuse 10.3 here), perform the following:

Download wine-0.9.19 from sourceforge here. The link is for suse rpms, but other packages are available from WineHQ Downloads.

Remove any existing versions of wine and install version 0.9.19:

rpm -e wine

rpm -ivh wine-0.9.19-SuSELinux100.i586.rpm

Install Lotus Notes (replacing the executable name with your own):

wine BasicClient.exe

After the setup completes, copy the following .dll’s from a windows machine and place them in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32:

• oleacc.dll
• oleaccrc.dll

Using winecfg, setup a library override for oleacc:

winecfg

Click “Applications”

Click “Add application”

Browse to “drive_c\Program Files\lotus\notes\nlnotes.exe” and click “Open”

Change “Windows Version” to “Windows XP”

Click “Libraries”

Select “oleacc” from the dropdown and hit “OK”

You can now execute Lotus Notes by using the following command line:

wine “C:\\Program Files\\lotus\\notes\\nlnotes.exe”

Once you’ve verified that it works ok, you can safely upgrade to wine-0.9.56.

Hope this helps somebody out there.

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