benzwu

I’ve been trying to install Lotus Notes 8.5.1 Designer/Admin using Wine in OS X 10.6.2 with no luck.

I installed wine-devel using macport and Porticus as it’s GUI. Pretty neat using these combination instead getting all dependencies manually without GUI.

First obstacle was I have to the setup screen stop at calculating diskspace usage. The work around is to call the .msi instead.

wine msiexec  /i Lotus\ Notes\ 8.5.1.msi

At the end of the installation, the setup will fire a service but alas it came with error message that it require to be run in folder with notes.ini file.

I had to force the installation and manually run notes.exe instead but, BAM!, flat at on the brick wall.

Guess stick with virtualization for now.