===== Installation of the Novell GroupWise 6.5 Client =====

==== Emerging the client applications ====

As the tree also holds the groupwise 7 clients, you have to mask all versions greater then 6.x

<code>
# layman -a n4g
# echo ">=net-mail/novell-groupwise-gwclient-7.0" >> /etc/portage/packages.mask
# emerge -uND novell-groupwsie-gwclient
</code>


Or use the experimental overlay if you want to experiment with the new (cutting edge) ebuilds.

<code>
# layman -a n4g
# layman -a n4g-experimetal
# echo ">=net-mail/novell-groupwise-gwclient-7.0" >> /etc/portage/packages.mask
# emerge -uND novell-groupwsie-gwclient
</code>


==== usage ====

You can start it from console:

<code>
# /opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise
</code>


Or start it from the "Internet" submenu in your start menu

==== known problem ====

When you start GW you get an error along the lines of:


<code>
groupwise-bin: xcb_xlib.c:52: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.
/usr/bin/groupwise: line 3: 10692 Aborted  /opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise-bin "$@"
</code>


follow the instructions in the compiz Howto: [[http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_compiz-fusion#XCB_workaround|XCB workaround]] 

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