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. Once you install the productivity tools, there is online user help available for each tool.

System requirements

    The following list contains the client system requirements:

  • Supported Windows&reg platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
  • Supported Linux platforms: SLED 10, RHEL 5
  • At least 750MB of free disk space on Linux and at least 540MB of free disk space on Windows
  • At least 512MB RAM memory

Note: Windows installer does not support AMD64 CPU with XP/Vista 64 bit platforms installed.

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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 Beta 4 will automatially switch 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. If no installation screen appears, double-click the setup.exe, file located in the same folder as the IBM_Lotus_Symphony_w32.exe file.
  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, as well as one shortcut on the Start -> All Programs menu.

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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 Beta 4 will automatially switch 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. Execute the IBM_Lotus_Symphony_Linux.bin file to start the installation, and follow the screen instructions. If no installation screen displays, execute the setup.bin file located in the same folder as the IBM_Lotus_Symphony_Linux.bin file.
  6. 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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Notes

  • On Linux, you need to perform either of the following actions before you can print the license page during installation:
    • Install a correct driver for your local printer.
    • Use your current Postscript printer and set the GhostScript pre-filtering as Convert to PS level 1 on the Advanced tab.
  • You must uninstall Lotus Symphony before you switch to a different account on the same machine to re-install Lotus Symphony.
  • On Windows Vista, you cannot install Lotus Symphony from a remote server.
  • You will need to adjust Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) policies or disable SELinux temporarily before you can install Lotus Symphony on some Linux platforms with SELinux enabled. Otherwise, an error message "Failed to find VM - aborting" will display because the Java in InstallShield® MultiPlatform uses a few libraries which by default do not have permission according to SELinux policies.

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