HCL Notes and Domino 9.0 Social Edition Forum - Identifying Notes Installation

May 6, 2013, 12:50 PM

14 Posts

Yes.

On alll versions of Windows the registry key contains the location and version information for the installed version of Notes.

You can examine the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Lotus\Notes\Path and Version values. (Remember if your app is 64bit you will have to look into the Wow6432Node for Notes' registry values since it is a 32bit app)

On Linux you can look for the /opt/IBM/Notes directory. Getting the version is a little harder.

~Olga Asaboosiman

May 15, 2013, 3:18 PM

5 Posts

Identifying Notes Installation

Hi, Jeff!

Thanks for you answer! Nonetheless, even if it's harder to identify the Notes version on Linux, is there any trustable way to get the Notes installed version? I'm not sure if I have mentioned but I'm the Team Lead for the IBM's global application called My Help. This app has several features, one of which brings information about Notes to the user. That's why I need to know if there is an easier way to identify the Notes version. Presently, My Help looks for the /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/version.txt file to check for the version. With the new Notes 9, I could see the "lotus" piece has been cut off from the path so we will need to change our code to check the "version.txt" file on both "/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/" and "/opt/ibm/notes/" paths for verifying the version.

Hope you can help us on finding out the best way for checking the version on Linux.

Thanks in advance!

~Fred Ekjumiveroni

Aug 28, 2013, 11:43 PM

4 Posts

re: Identifying Notes Installation

]$ cat /opt/ibm/notes/version.txt
NOTES_VERSION_NUMBER=9.0.00.13067

On systems supporting RPM:

]$ rpm -qa | grep notes
ibm_notes-9.0-20130309.0942.i586

Those are the only two ways of which I know.