Lotus Symphony on amd64

gluemonkey · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject: Lotus Symphony on amd64

This is just a quick howto to get the IBM's Lotus Symphony on Gentoo amd64.

First of all grab Lotus Symphony you can follow the download from here http://symphony.lotus.com/. You'll have to register with IBM to actually get the download, which for some reason proved very difficult today.

After you have it:

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got the following error:

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Anyone see the news that IBM is launching a new version of Lotus, right after officially becoming a contributer to OpenOffice?

Apparently the new version of Lotus will be based on OpenOffice. I think this is a very good thing. Lotus did many things right, and I think IBM will help put some spit-and-polish on OOo.
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gluemonkey · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:49 pm Post subject:

davjel, here is what I have, I had to install the ibm-jre-bin-1.6 to get my athlon64 at home to work, it was already installed on my laptop, though it's an 64bit version is seems to do the trick. I tried installing this on a gentoo x86 machine it broke with glibc memory corruption error, I haven't had time to sit and debug it though. However I have been able to get on two different amd64 machines, both in graphical and console mode, still can't get silent to co-operate though.

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golding · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:34 pm Post subject:

My system = AMD64x2 - 32bit installation.

Following gluemonkey's list of required packages, my installation (as root - global) failed as I needed sys-devel/bc before it could continue.

After I had emerged 'bc', the installation required the -console flag to continue as it said it couldn't use the gui.

gluemonkey · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 12:13 am Post subject:

golding:

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eean · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:50 am Post subject:

This Lotus Symphony has nothing to do with the DOS version. You could install dosemu and run the old Lotus on that.

/me is downloading new Lotus Symphony right now

I don't like that its closed source, but the screenshots look pretty nice.
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golding · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:44 am Post subject:

eean · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:18 pm Post subject:

Erm, no of course its not a console based word processor.
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eean · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject:

I installed it. It takes so long to load without any progress indication that I thought it was locking up. But once I had a little patience it loaded.

What makes it unusable for me is how the text is displaying. I uploaded a screenshot.

It is obviously a beta though and hopefully they haven't had their usability review yet. To open a file, you go File->Open->File. But if you click on the Open button and select Document it creates a new blank document.

A tab-based word processor/presenter/spreadsheet is nice though.
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gluemonkey · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:05 pm Post subject:

I agree it's definitely beta, the load time on my machine it far from stellar, probably about 10sec longer then OO.org to load. What font are you using, mine seems to display the fonts okay. I've been using as my main office suite on my work machine for the past week now and have only had minor issues like tool tips not disappearing as fast as they should or funky menu stuff that can be annoying but not show stoppers.
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eean · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject:

The screenshot is using "Times" so I guess some generic serif font. But I've tried with other fonts like Bitstream Vera [Sans|Serif], Times New Roman and its all the same. The characters look jumbled together; some too close together and some too far apart. Its not due to the font, they just aren't being displayed right. You're sure yours looks OK?

Well it is using Eclipse so I suppose we shouldn't be surprised by the long load time. The memory usage is OK though, closing it freed up about 70 megabytes.
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Well, this is very helpful. I was finally able to get this installed. Thanks, gluemonkey. Especially since I could not get OpenOffice to work without crashing when I clicked on a menu item.

There's just one little thing: how do I run it? I don't use gnome or kde (I use WindowMaker), so I have no premade menus or icons to click on. Can someone tell me what the command is? (They should really add a link in /usr/local/bin to the executable.)

Thanks.

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I was said to see this a fork of OpenOffice 1, and an old fork at that. I like the layout and look of this over OpenOffice, and I hope they can bring their changes up towards the more recent OpenOffice 2.3
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dvh · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:12 am Post subject:

I too have an AMD-64X2, but I have a 32-bit version of gentoo loaded. Do I need all of the "app-emulation" packages listed above, or are those only needed if my OS is x64?

-dvh

luca82 · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:03 am Post subject:

Hello,

I'm trying to install the latest Beta4, but whenever I try to run the script I get this error message:

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Any ebuilds for this yet?

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