Comments on: Installing Groupwise 8 Client in Ubuntu Jaunty AMD64

By: PasQty

PasQty — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:25:43 +0000

GroupWise 8.0.2 multilangugae, Ubunto 10.10 64bit
i m doing that like this:
apt-get install ia32-libs
apt-get install ia32-sun-java6-bin
apt-get install alien
alien -i –veryverbose –script novell-groupwise-client-8.0.2-90840.i586.rpm
-i mean install, you can use -t that make tarfile.
cd /opt/novell/groupwise/client
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun/jre java

By: Petri

Petri — Fri, 21 May 2010 09:57:12 +0000

Thanks for the instructions.

My problem was getting the tarball in the first place, because
the link you have is too general. I did not realise that I should select
” Novell GroupWise 8 Evaluation eMedia Kit ”
in order to get “Groupwise 8 Linux Client Tarball”.

Here is the link I ended up with – maybe it can help someone else

http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=v3w3LYhP1vU~

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:03:18 +0000

Thank you for taking time to post this article, it did help me get in the write track, here are the steps I used to get this working on 64bit jaunty:

1. install alien and other needed stuff –> sudo apt-get install libstdc++5 libasound2 libgcc1 alien
2. Get the client novell client from ????
3. Unpack it with alien -t –veryverbose novell-groupwise-gwclient-7.0.4-20100313.i586.rpm
this will create the tar file below
4. tar xzvf novell-groupwise-gwclient-7.0.4.tgz
5. sudo mv opt/novell /opt/
6. sudo cp usr/bin/groupwise /usr/bin/
7. sudo cp usr/share/applications/gwclient.desktop /usr/share/applications/
8. cd /opt/novell/client
9. mv jre jre_old
10. install 32bit jre –> sudo apt-get install ia32-sun-java6-bin
11. sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun/jre /opt/novell/groupwise/client/jre
12. download some more 32 bit libs to get rid of some errors:
libglib1.2_1.2.10-10.1build1_i386.deb
libgtk1.2_1.2.10-18.1build2_i386.deb
libstdc++5_3.3.6-17ubuntu1_i386.deb
13. unpack each one of them separatelly (create a temp folder for each so the libs don’t override each other) and copy
them: (i.e. for libglib do this, follow the same with the other 2, just change the names)
mkdir temp_glib
cd temp_glib
dpkg -X libglib1.2_1.2.10-10.1build1_i386.deb .
sudo cp usr/lib/* /usr/lib32/
14. That’s it, just run the app with /opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise

By: N.C. Weber

N.C. Weber — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:42:12 +0000

I just downloaded the GW8 Client for Linux onto my Acer Aspire One running Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10. When I ran the RPM through alien, it suggested that I add the –scripts option to the command. When I did that, not only did it convert the RPM to DEB, but it also installed the DEB automatically right then and there. Afterwards, I found the GW8 icon in the Internet folder, and it runs fine without doing the bit with JAVA. Has there been a change in alien since this was posted?

By: HRTS

HRTS — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:28:30 +0000

Thank you Brian.
It worked fine!
As a note – I did tried to install the windows version using wine but failed.
You saved me with this post.

By: xtad

xtad — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:39:10 +0000

Thanks Brian – good work.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:06:13 +0000

This works for me on Ubuntu Jaunty x86_64 with the 8.0.1 client:

Install ia32 java version:
sudo aptitude install ia32-sun-java-bin

Using the novell-groupwise-client-8.0.1-88138.i586.rpm file:
unpack the rpm with:
rpm2cpio novell-groupwise-client-8.0.1-88138.i586.rpm | cpio -ivd

then move the files to where they need to go:
cd opt
sudo mv novell/ /opt/
cd ../usr/bin
sudo mv groupwise /usr/bin/
cd ../share/applications
sudo mv gwclient.desktop /usr/share/applications/

tell groupwise to use the system java:
cd /opt/novell/groupwise/client/
mv java java-orig
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun/jre java

Then run the groupwise client as normal.

By: sharms

sharms — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:04:12 +0000

Mujaba,

What happens when you run it from a gnome-terminal (/opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise.sh)? Can you paste the output?

By: Mujtaba Talebi

Mujtaba Talebi — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:58:55 +0000

I was not able to get this working on Ubuntu 9.04 64bit using the above directions. These are the steps I took:

1. Create an Ubuntu virtual machine using virtualbox (free) http://www.virtualbox.org and install Ubuntu 9.04 x86 32bit.
2. Download the Novell Groupwise 8 tarball. Could not find it on Novell’s website (they removed it?) but was able to get it from our local GW admins.
3. Download Java 6 JRE 32 bit version (64 bit did not work for me!!).
4. Extract the jre by typing “./jre-6u15-linux-i586.bin”.
5. Untar the Novel Groupwise tarball.
6. Do the alien step from above to the GW Client file: “sudo alien -i novell-groupwise-gwclient-8.0.0-84910.i586.rpm”. This will install Groupwise to /opt/novell
7. sudo rm -rf /opt/novell/groupwise/client/jre/
8. Move the jre directory you extracted earlier from step 5 to /opt/novell/groupwise/client/jre/. I liked the idea Daniel had about using the symbolic link to Ubuntu’s package maintained java but it does not work for me because the 64bit java jre Ubuntu installed did not allow GroupWise to load (which is why we downloaded the 32bit java jre on step 3.).
9. You should be able to run GroupWise either by navigating to Applications -> Internet -> Groupwise if you use Gnome or by typing /opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise in the command line to launch GroupWise. If this works then you can copy /opt/novell from your 32bit Ubuntu to your 64bit ubuntu and it should work.
10. In my 64bit Ubuntu there is no shortcut in Applications -> Internet for GroupWise in Gnome so I created a launcher item in Gnome for /opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise so that I can just double click on the launcher icon and open GroupWise.

If anyone can let me know how to symbolically link my GroupWise JRE to the Ubuntu 64bit jre and get GW to load please let me know.

By: sharms

sharms — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:46:40 +0000

James,

I generally only run x86_64, so these instructions should work. The groupwise client is java so no architecture specific stuff needed really