10.5: How to install Lotus Notes in Leopard |
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I just installed Leopard (os x 10.5) and as most other users are very happy with it. Until I ran into this little problem: Lotus Notes 7.0.2 will not install. The install script gives an error and forces the install to quit. However I was able to find the problem and force the system to give the correct information to the install script. Here is what I did.The problem is that the installer for Lotus Notes runs a shell script that determines a few things about your computer, amongst them the current OS version. If the version is not 8 (nothing lower, but also nothing higher) the installer will quit. It uses the sysctl to determine the version. What I did was rename sysctl to something else and create a shell script in the place of sysctl (/usr/sbin/) that only returns what the installer wants to hear.[robg adds: What follows is potentially very dangerous, as ...
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