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/