Considerations for installing and upgrading Notes® on Mac OS X
Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with IBM® Notes®, including traditional Notes® functionality. Additional features can also be installed.
The install kit for Notes® on Apple Mac OS X consists of the following items:
- Notes® installation Meta-package (.mpkg)
- Uninstaller application
Considerations are as follows:
- The installation program will detect and upgrade an existing Notes® installation to the current Notes® installation.
- If you are upgrading Notes®, turn off all options in the Application Sharing tab of the Shared System Preferences page.
- You can install Notes® in a multi-user environment. Single user install is not supported.
- Shut down all applications before installing or upgrading to this release of Notes®, including anti-virus software.
- Users must have administrator-level privileges to install.
- Installation and use of Notes® on a USB drive is not supported for Notes® standard configuration.
- Notes® roaming user does not support switching a user ID, as noted in the user interface response.
- The install source path cannot contain any of the following characters:
: " < > ! # % ' = ;
- The install destination path cannot contain any of the following
characters:
: " < > ! # % ' = ;