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Groupwise 8 client on Ubuntu 9.04

| June 20th, 2009

Novell offers a full featured Linux client for its Groupwise mail system.  The release version is built as rpm files, which integrates nicely with SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, but does not install directly on debian/ubuntu based systems.

Installation of the Groupwise client in Ubuntu Jaunty is relatively straight forward.

1.  Download the Groupwise 8 Client from your Software Distribution Directory (SDD).  Typically this is /opt/novell/groupwise/software/
2.  sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre java-common alien libstdc++5
3.  sudo alien -i novell-groupwise-gwclient-8.0.0-<buildnumber>.i586.rpm
4.  sudo rm -rf /opt/novell/groupwise/client/jre
5.  sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre /opt/novell/groupwise/client/jre

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