Ubuntu/Kubuntu "Dapper Drake" has been released and I'm running it on my work laptop. One program I could live without but can't work without is Lotus Notes. Fortunately Notes runs under Wine, and I've been using it that way for about 4 months. All was well until yesterday when I upgraded from the Breezy Badger to the Dapper Drake. The new version of wine included broke Notes.After much moustache pulling
(As you can see I pulled the whole thing out with some help.) I have sucessfully got things working again. I didn't find good instructions on this subject so I'm posting here. For people who don't have a clue how to get Notes working in linux but want to know, look at these sorta ok instructions. Now for people who just want to fix notes on Dapper, here is the quick fix:- Rename this lib /usr/lib/wine/usp10.dll.so. Make it _usp10.dll.so or something so wine won't find it. (This is a hack, you should really use winecfg or some other supported way of disabling that dll. I think under the libraries tab of winecfg there is a way to ignore that one. I've been meaning to mess with this, but haven't got around to it so I don't know if it works.)
- Put mfc42u.dll into your wine windows/system directory (it should be in your ~/.wine directory) My windows install didn't have this dll so I googled for it and found it for download here.
- Finally run winecfg and change the version to windows98 (otherwise it seems to crash when you try to attach files in an email).
And remember kids, I know next to nothing about wine so there are probably some much better ways of handling things than I am suggesting here. I'd be happy to hear some comments about how to do this the right way.
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As of wine-0.9.19, most of that fiddling shouldn't be needed,
as Lotus Notes 6, 6.5, and 7 install and run now without messing with usp10.
See http://wiki.winehq.org/LotusNotes for details.
Thanks Dan, that is great news! I know plenty of people who had given up trying to get Lotus Notes to work under wine, and where I work that means they had pretty much given up using linux for their day to day computing. So thanks to Stefan Siebert, James Hawkins, Hans Leidekker, and the wine community for making it possible for me to use linux as my OS.
Hmm. I thought I heard IBM had released a native linux version of notes. I suppose I would give it a shot if everyone at work were upgrading. I'm not in a hurry though since my notes on wine works like a champ.
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