Re: [Evolution] Getting Evolution via RedCarpet - Mandrake 7.2?

[Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale HMC Edu>]

On 28 Apr 2001 16:11:01 -0400, Michael Leone wrote:
> On 27 Apr 2001 05:09:42 -0500, Aaron Zuercher wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> > I just joined the Evo list, and caught the tail of this thread about 
> > tricking Red-carpet to allow Mandrake to download Evo.   I am running 
> > Mandrake and would like more information on how to do this.  Could you 
> > please send me the release file also?  Thanks!
>
>
> Make a backup copy your original /etc/mandrake-release file.
> Then replace the contents of /etc/mandrake-release with
>
> RedHat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot) for i686
>
> Reboot.

Reboot? What are you using? Windows? ;-)

I've used this trick without rebooting.

--Ben

> Your RC now thinks it's running RH 6.2, so you get an Evolution Snapshot
> channel.
>
> (The snapshots are only made for RH 6.2, RH 7.0, and Debian, so you have
> to fool RC into thinking you're running one of these distributions. Of
> course, you also don't get to see the Mandrake-specific update/fix files
> this way - for those, you'll still need to use Mandrake-update.)
>
> If you don't want to change this file, you could also download the
> snapshots by hand, and install that way. Just be sure to get the RH 6.2
> snaps.
>
>
>
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