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 RPM packages on Linux SLED 10 and RHEL5

  1. Log in as the root user.
  2. Locate the *.rpm file that you downloaded.
  3. Make sure that the additional package standard C++ library libcstdc++.so.6 is installed.
  4. Make sure that any previous ISMP version or RPM version of Lotus Symphony is uninstalled.
  5. Double-click the symphony-1.3.i586.rpm file to start the installation, and follow the instructions on the screen.
  6. Double-click the symphony-nl1-1.3.i586.rpm, symphony-nl2-1.3.i586.rpm, or symphony-nl3-1.3.i586.rpm file to install the translation packages if you want.

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Installing IBM Lotus Symphony DEB packages on Ubuntu 8.04

  1. Log in to the Ubuntu system.
  2. Locate the *.deb file that you downloaded.
  3. Make sure that the additional package standard C++ library libcstdc++.so.6 is installed. This package is installed by default.
  4. Make sure that any previous ISMP version of Lotus Symphony is uninstalled.
  5. Double-click the symphony_1.3-1hardy1_i386.deb file to start the installation, and follow the instructions on the screen.
  6. Double-click the symphony-nl1_1.3-1hardy1_i386.deb, symphony-nl2_1.3-1hardy1_i386.deb, or symphony-nl3_1.3-1hardy1_i386.deb file to install the translation packages if you want.

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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 version 1.3 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 instructions to complete the installation. Click Finish when the installation process is complete.

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Installing IBM Lotus Symphony on Mac OS X

  1. If you have installed previous Lotus Symphony version, uninstall it first and then delete ~/Library/Applications Support/Lotus Symphony Data. If you do not delete it, the old data folder will be reused and upgraded.
  2. Double-click the dmg file to mount it.
  3. Click the IBM Lotus Symphony.mpkg file to start the installation.
  4. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation. Click Finish when the installation process is complete.
  5. The installation location is: /Applications/Symphony.app.

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