NOTES CLIENT INSTALLATION AND UPGRADE

Reducing the Notes install kit size
IBM® Lotus®Notes® contains features which increase the size of the install kits when compared to the Notes basic configuration install kits and previous releases. Some customer's infrastructures are not capable of efficiently handling distribution of the larger install kits and require a method by which they can reduce the size of the kit and still leverage the increased capabilities of the Notes standard configuration client. You can optionally reduce the size of the install kit by removing any of the three features listed here.

If you are not using IBM Lotus Symphony™, IBM Lotus Sametime® or the Composite Application Editor in your user population, you can reduce the size of your Notes install kit using the procedure described here. Reductions to the size of the Notes install kit are listed in the table below.
Feature NameSize reduction (approximate)
Lotus Symphony78MB
Sametime4MB
Composite Application Editor4MB
You can remove the following supplied features from the Notes install kit:


Other features listed in the Notes install kit are required and should not be removed using this method. Do not remove any other features from the kit.

Note Installfeatures are optional features of a Notes install kit that may be selected by the user for installation. These features are defined in the install manifest file (deploy\install.xml). The implementation of these features is done in Java; the code resides in the zipped Eclipse update site directory updateSite.zip in the main install kit directory. It is possible to remove user selectable features from the updateSize.zip file and from the install manifest (deploy\install.xml) to reduce the size of the updateSite.zip file. As noted, this can reduce the size of the Notes install kit.

To remove any of the three features listed above from the Notes install kit, do the following:

1. Copy the Notes install kit to a local drive to a new directory. Include all subdirectories, (for example."C:\NotesInstallKit\".

2. In the locally copied kit, rename updateSize.zip to a backup name such as UpdateSiteSave.zip.

3. Uncompress the backup file to a new directory, preserving the directory structure.

4. Using wildcard syntax remove the files from the expanded update site directory.

5. Create a new "updateSite.zip" file by zipping the expanded update site directory making sure to include all subdirectories. You must preserve the existing directory structures.


6. Copy the deploy\install.xml file to a backup file such as installsave.xml.

7. Open the deploy\install.xml file with a text or XML editor.

8. From the point in the file where the featureID was found, look backward in the file for the start of the feature definition which starts with "<installfeature ...".

9. Insert a blank line on the line BEFORE the line that starts with "<installfeature ...".

10. Type "<!-- <enter>" on the blank line (omit the quotes -- <enter> means press the “Enter” key to end the line).

11. Insert a blank line at the end of the feature definition -- on the line AFTER "</installfeature>".

12. Type "--> <enter>" on the blank line (omit the quotes -- <enter> means press the "enter" key to end the line).

13. Save the file.

The updated Notes install kit is now ready to deploy. Perform a test installation to be sure that the kit functions correctly. If it does not, recheck that you have followed the steps in this procedure.

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