HOWTO : Lotus Domino on Fedora Core 4 x86_64

I just installed Lotus Domino v6.5.3 on Fedora Core 4 x86_64 (AMD Athlon64) with only a couple hiccups. After the install, there was the usual "libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 not found" error when I started the server in listen mode which was easily fixed with a few yum commands:

>yum provides libc6.1-1.so.2

which said the lib could be found in compat-libc++-296.i386, so...

>yum install compat-libc++-296.i386

After that I was able to start the server in listen mode and complete remote configuration.

This was an additional server in the domain and I had a bit of trouble getting it to talk to the other servers in the domain. This could probably have been avoided by adding connection docs for the new server in the directory after registering it, but *before* starting the installation of the new server.

Also, I was pleasantly suprised to see that the server setup provided an alternative to pulling the admin databases over the network -- it can look for them on the local file system. So you could simply copy (FTP) the necessary databases from another server in the domain beforehand. Its a classic workaround to the problem of trying to pull names.nsf without the connection docs in names.nsf and it was nice to see it as an option.