NOTES CLIENT INSTALLATION AND UPGRADE

Removing features from the Notes install kit using a supplied tool
You can optionally remove certain features from the IBM® Lotus® Notes® install kit prior to installing or upgrading Notes.

Note Of the supplied features, the Composite Applications Editor, Lotus Symphony, Activities, and the SametimeUI features are available for removal from the install kit; all other features must remain as supplied and not be removed from the install kit.

Using the trimUpdateSite tool, you can remove optional features from the install kit prior to installing or upgrading Notes. The trimUpdateSite tool is available as a Microsoft® Windows® executable (apps\utility\trimUpdateSite.exe).

Note If the trimUpdateSite tool is not available, you can manually remove the feature, plug-in, and SITE.XML content from the updateSite.zip and the correlating <installfeature> from the install manifest, using Notes install kit conventions.

Note You will need the externally-available zip232xN.zip and unz552xN.exe from ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/tools/zip/info-zip/WIN32/ to run the tool.

1. Make a backup copy of your Notes install kit.

2. Create a working directory by copying the updateSite.zip and deploy\install.xml to a new directory. Ensure that you have write access to the working directory.

3. Ensure that you have adequate space for unzipping and re-zipping updateSite.zip on your %TEMP% drive.

4. Change to the working directory in which the updatesite.zip and the deploy\install.xml install manifest reside.

5. Move a copy of the supplied trimUpdateSite.exe (apps\utility\trimUpdateSite.exe) and its readme.txt file to your working directory.

6. Open the readme file associated with the trimUpdateSite.exe and obtain the zip232xN.zip and unz552xN.exe from ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/tools/zip/info-zip/WIN32. Place them in the working directory.


7. Navigate to your working directory and double click trimUpdateSite.exe using Windows Explorer, or start the program using a Command Prompt.

8. Click the "..." browse button next to the "Select Location of updateSite.zip:" option.

9. Select the directory as instructed.


10. Select the feature(s) to remove and click Process Selection(s)."
11. When prompted, click OK to remove the selected feature(s) from the updateSite.zip (update site folder) and the deploy\install.xml file (Notes install manifest).

12. When informed that processing is complete, click Exit.

13. Copy the modified updateSite.zip and deploy\install.xml from your working directory to overwrite the supplied updateSite.zip and deploy\install.xml in your Notes install kit.


14. Run a test install, before deploying Notes to users, to ensure that the feature(s) you specified has been properly installed and the Notes install kit installs as you expect it to.

The trimUpdateSite tool creates a copy of the files it modifies, for example "copy of updateSite.zip" and "copy of install.xml." You can undo the trimUpdateSite tool work by deleting its output updateSize.zip and install.xml and renaming the "copy of" originals back to updateSite.zip and install.xml.

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