Life’s an ocean with too much commotion

he Groupwise Client version 6.x that is available for linux is consuming too much memory. The Groupwise Client version 7.0.1 is also available but that user-friendly for installing on a distribution other than SuSE (Novell).

Follow this guide to install the groupwise client version 7.0.1 on a Ubuntu Hardy distribution. Note that this procedure may also be valid for other (debian-package supported) distributions, but it has only been tested on Ubuntu Hardy.

• Download the groupwise client 7.0.1
  wget -P /tmp http://nsn.uvsc.edu/GWClient/gw701clnxm.tgz

• Untar the contents. The tarball contains two RPM packages.
  tar -zxpf gw701clnxm.tgz -C /tmp

• Convert the Groupwise Client RPM package to a debian package with alien.
  sudo alien -d /tmp/image/2006.06.13/client/linux/novell-groupwise-gwclient-7.0.1-20060613.i386.rpm

• Install the newly created debian package
  sudo dpkg -i /tmp/image/2006.06.13/client/linux/novell-groupwise-gwclient-7.0.1-20060613.i386.deb

• This will install some files into /opt/novell/groupwise/client

• Now we have to update the java runtime environment for this Groupwise Client. On my system this only worked with the Java 6 JRE from Sun.
  rm -rf /opt/novell/groupwise/client/jre
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre /opt/novell/groupwise/client/jre

• Place the desktop icon on your desktop
  cp /opt/novell/groupwise/client/gwclient.desktop ~/Desktop/