I've tried to install for first time Lotus Notes 8.5.3 on Ubuntu 12.10 32bit , in a fresh installation over a laptop and the experience was great than i had expected.

This is the deb i've installed

• Lotus Notes
• Sametime
• Activity
• CAE
• Feed Reader
• FP2

All with Ubuntu Software Center 

At the first run i've see the usually problem with search in this view, so i've used this library

 

 wget http://www.benkevan.com/upload/lotus_notes/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0

 wget http://www.benkevan.com/upload/lotus_notes/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0

 wget http://www.benkevan.com/upload/lotus_notes/libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0

 wget http://www.benkevan.com/upload/lotus_notes/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
 sudo mv *. so.0 /opt/ibm/lotus/notes

Another old problem with old solution with email attachement , when you click open, nothing happens

To solve this problem

            sudo mv /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith.bak
            sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gnome-open /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith