How to get Groupwise 7.0.3 Linux client to install on Fedora Core 11

Posted by Julian Dunn on November 12, 2009
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Novell provides Groupwise clients only for SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. Here’s how to get those RPMs to install on a Fedora Core 11 system.

First, make sure the following packages are installed

  • compat-libstdc++-33
  • libXp
  • glib
  • gtk+
  • gdk-pixbuf
  • openmotif

You can get openmotif from http://www.motifzone.org/ (there should be RPMs)

Now hack a symlink for libXm.so.3 in /usr/lib:

% sudo ln -s libXm.so.4 libXm.so.3

Now you should be able to install Groupwise — you might need to use –nodeps or –force in order to get it to install.

If you get errors like:

Error: Failed to load /home/dunnj/.novell/groupwise/.webrenderer/linux/corecomponents/libgtksuperwin.so
Error: Failed to load /home/dunnj/.novell/groupwise/.webrenderer/linux/corecomponents/libgtkxtbin.so
Error: Failed to load /home/dunnj/.novell/groupwise/.webrenderer/linux/corecomponents/libgtkembedmoz.so
Error: Failed to load /home/dunnj/.novell/groupwise/.webrenderer/linux/corecomponents/libgtkxtbin.so
Error: Failed to load.
Exception in thread “ControlQueue” java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: com.webrenderer.linux.NativeMozillaLibrary.setMozPath(Ljava/lang/String;Z)V
at com.webrenderer.linux.NativeMozillaLibrary.setMozPath(Native Method)
at com.webrenderer.linux.NativeMozillaLibrary.a(NativeMozillaLibrary.java)
at com.webrenderer.linux.k.task(k.java)
at com.webrenderer.linux.ControlQueue.run(ControlQueue.java)

it means you didn’t install gtk+, glib and gdk-pixbuf.

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