I want to get to know Linux again, we had a brief flirtation years ago and.... well I've been looking at it again and it's looking quite attractive.  So I installed both centOS5 and RHEL (essentially the same thing I'm told) on two virtual machines.

I then tried to install Notes 8 on centOS 5 and try as I might I couldn't.  I tried installing using the ./setup.sh script and it would extract files and do something with a jvm and then disapear.  So I tried ./setup.sh -console and I saw more of what was going on - tons of errors

I found a couple of references to the problem on the web but I guess it would hurt to tell you what I/We found
....

As I mentioned Linux and I have been estranged so I got a little help from a colleague and eventually we found the fix which is to install "legacy software support" - we think to support the version of installshield (we may be wrong) and to disable SELinux, we also disabled the firewall.

If you've already installed Linux then the Legacy Software Support packages are:

compat-libgcc-296
compat-libstdc++-296
compat-libstdc++-33

Which I installed using yum: 

yum install compat-libgcc-296 compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33

I disabled SELinux and the Firewall from the Administration\Security\Security Level and Firewall menus.

After that I could install Notes 8 with the graphical installer and it installed without an error. 

I'll be running ND8 on Linux this afternoon and strangely I'm really looking forward to it....