Lotus Notes on Debian testing (etch)

1. edit /etc/apt/sources.list. Add source for the most recent wine version:

deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ binary/
deb-src http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ source/

2. update apt sources through apt-get update
3. create /etc/apt/preferences with the following lines:

package: wine
Pin: release l=WineHQ APT Repository
Pin-Priority: 1000

3. install wine. apt-get install wine

4. run wine in the commandline. this will create a /home/user/.wine directory. the new version of wine ( e.g 0.9.9 ) has deprecated the config file. all configurations are now written on *.reg

5. copy lotus installation folder from your windows workstation.

cp -rfv lotus_notes_path /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/

6. copy native windows dlls; mfc42.dll, msvcp60.dll, usp10.dll to home/user/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32. set notes.exe and nlnotes.exe to use these native dlls through winecfg.

7. select win98 as windows version.

8. run wine "c:\Program Files\lotus\notes\notes.exe"

9. enjoy notes on debian....

ref: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=2271