about a month ago, i managed to download the Lotus Sametime Client 8.5 from the internet but then it failed to be installed onto the laptop for some reason that i don't understand... not only that, but then in the process... i've also uninstall the version 8.0 which i've been using... zzzz...
so for the last 1 month plus, i've to basically downgrade myself back to the old and outdated Sametime Client 3.0 zzzz... pretty depressing huh??!!... but then yesterday, i tried reinstalling the 8.5 version once more and the result is still the same... it just failed and the log file is not understandable at all... not giving up, so i went thru that complex and difficult to read log file and found out that all the additional jar files needed are actually downloaded from the internet as the installation is running... and the problem is that the URL link to IBM site has been relocated, and that's the reason why the provisioning of the jar files failed...
i went over to the internet once more to test out the relocated site of IBM and found their new site which is called the Lotus Greenhouse... it's kinda of a site where once you've registered yourself in, you've access to most of their beta(s) program and this includes the Sametime Client 8.5 ;)
registration is a piece of cake and in no time i was downloading the file and this time i noticed that all the provisioning jar files are included in the download package... this means that it will no longer need to access the internet to download the jar files while installing... saves a lot of time during installation... and tada!... i'm on Sametime Client 8.5 now... ~cool~
you can access the Lotus Greenhouse here
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Sametime Client 8.5 Installed ~ Finally
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