Installing Domino 8.5.2 on CentOS 5.7

I chose VirtualBox to install a virtual machine with CentOS 5.7.

For CentOS installation, I use CentOS-5.7-i386-netinstall.iso from ftp://centos.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/centos/5/isos/i386/

That enabled me to download a 12MB iso to kickstart the CentOS installation and to install other packages as needed from the web, instead of downloading more than 4GB of installation files.

I specified HTTP when prompted where the installation files are, and filled in the following:

web URL: centos.arcticnetwork.ca
image file: pub/centos/5/os/i386/

Note: You can pick other mirror sites as desired.

When setting up CentOS, I selected the following to ensure that only required items are installed.

Under Servers, be sure to de-select all server components (except for Server Configuration Tools, if desired)

And under Base System, ensure Java is selected.

Once CentOS is installed, create a new user "notes". Login as notes. Apply all system updates as prompted.

From a terminal:

# su

Apply all required patches for Domino on Linux as follows, based on this technote from IBM Ref: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27013075:

$ yum install glibc libgcc libXp libstdc++ alsa atk cairo compat-libstdc++ expat fontconfig freetype2 glib glib2 glibc glitz gtk gtk2 libgcc libpng pango resmgr unixODBC zlib xorg-x11-libs compat-libstdc++-33 compat-libstdc++-296

Create the necessary folders as follows:

/local/notesdata

/install [note: this is the folder where we will store the Domino for linux tar file]

Change ownership of /local/notesdata recursively to "notes" and chmod this folder recursively to allow Read & Write for notes & notes group

$ su

# chown -R notes:notes /local/notesdata

# chmod -R 664 /local/notesdata

Turn off unnecessary services:

# /sbin/chkconfig --levels 0123456 sendmail off

# /sbin/chkconfig --levels 0123456 cups off

copy the Domino linux installation tar into /install

# tar xvf
# cd /install/linux/domino

Start the Domino installation:

# ./install

From here, follow through the installation prompts using defaults or over-riding as needed. In the following,

I accepted the default option "Manual". We can start the server in listening mode for a one-off configuration later.

The rest of the installation is straight-forward. At the end of the installation, you will see a prompt as follows:

Have fun!