To benchmark this, I installed the DEB in an Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix VM to see if anything breaks there, and the package installs without any additional effort whatsoever. Since we’re working with version 8 here and not 9, naturally it is going to depend on some of those older packages. As I am often told, they like to change and remove packages, and that breaks dependencies on older applications. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Debian maintainers, the crux of the problems I faced getting it installed were deprecated and changed packages in 14.04. Long story short, I got it to work, but I had to pull some strings to do it.
I noticed the TAR for it in our company install folder. It began sort of as a “this would be cool to have” moment as I wanted to start using my netbook at work as an extra half-screen. Just for funsies, I took an awkward trip down LINUXLAND recently trying to install Lotus Notes 8.5.3 on my netbook running Peppermint Six, which is built on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty.
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