- Go to Novell.com and download ‘GroupWise 7 SP3 Linux Client US’ (may be listed as 7.0.3)
- Run: sudo apt-get install alien libstdc++5
- Extract the tar: tar xvfz gw703_client_linux_us.tar.gz
- Install it: sudo alien -i novell-groupwise-gwclient-7.0.3-20080309.i386.rpm
- Download Sun JRE 1.5: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp
- Extract it to Groupwise directory: sudo mv jre-1_5_0_15-linux-i586.bin /opt/novell/groupwise/client; cd /opt/novell/groupwise/client; sudo chmod +x ./jre-1_5_0_15-linux-i586.bin; sudo ./jre-1_5_0_15-linux-i586.bin; sudo ln -sf jre1.5.0_15 jre
- If you are running compiz, edit the startup script and add ‘export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit’ in /opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise.sh under the /bin/bash line
Then just create a launcher to that and you are good to go.
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#1 by Brit Butler on March 25, 2008 - 3:35 pm
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Do you know if anyone has successfully gotten the Novell Client to run on Ubuntu? That would be a huge boon for me here at the office and help mightily in getting people outside the IT department migrated.
#2 by admin on March 25, 2008 - 3:47 pm
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We don’t have the novell client running yet, but if you don’t mind a semi-nonfriendly interface ncpfs allows us to mount novell shares just fine. I will post here if we get a better solution to it.
#3 by Mike on March 27, 2008 - 1:18 pm
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Do you know if anyone has gotten the Novell iFolder to work on Ubuntu?