IBM Lotus Symphony Installation Guide

The IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ installer enables you to quickly and easily install the productivity tools: IBM Lotus Symphony Documents, IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, and IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations. After you install the productivity tools, there is online user help available for each tool.

The installation instructions are below. View the complete installation guide for additional information.

Installing IBM Lotus Symphony on Linux SLED 10 and RHEL5

  1. Login as the root user.
  2. Specify your local language setting by clicking Computer > Control Center > System > Language in SLED 10 or System -> Administration->Language in RHEL 5, if necessary. Then restart to enable the local language setting change. Lotus Symphony 1 automatically switches to the native language version specified in this setting.
  3. Locate the IBM_Lotus_Symphony_Linux.bin file that you downloaded.
  4. Change the IBM_Lotus_Symphony_Linux.bin file property to runnable, if necessary.
  5. Make sure that the additional package standard C++ library libcstdc++.so.5 has already been installed.
  6. Start the IBM_Lotus_Symphony_Linux.bin file to start the installation, and follow the screen instructions.
  7. Click Finish to complete the installation.

Result: You are ready to begin working with IBM Lotus Symphony to create new documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The installation program creates one shortcut icon for IBM Lotus Symphony located under Application > Office on RHEL5, or Computer > More Applications > Office on SLED 10.

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Installing IBM Lotus Symphony on Windows XP and Windows Vista

  1. Specify your local language setting by clicking Start > Control Panel > Region and Language Options, if necessary. Lotus Symphony 1 automatically switches to the native language version specified in this setting.
  2. Locate the IBM_Lotus_Symphony_w32.exe file that you downloaded.
  3. Double-click the file to start the installation process.
  4. Follow the screen instructions to complete the installation. Click Finish when the installation process is complete.

Result: You are ready to begin working with IBM Lotus Symphony to create new documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. You will have one icon for Lotus Symphony on your desktop, and one shortcut on the Start > All Programs menu.

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