Re: [Evolution] Re: More problems trying out Evolution

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Not sure if you're still having problems here (i've been catching up on
mail all day), but I posted something today about it which might help
(see also
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2001-January/001516.html), basically ensure oafd is 
in your path (might be in the sbin directory?), and try resetting .oafinfo (is there an OAF_PATH?), and 
things like that.

 !Z

On 17 Mar 2001 14:02:17 +0000, D. Pierce-Price wrote:
> ng toat, 17 Mar 2001, D. Pierce-Price wrote:
>
> > General comments would still be welcome about the feasibility of me trying
> > this out via the snapshot packages. How easy is it to back out? Can I just
> > remove the relevant RPMs?
>
> Following up to my previous posts (again!), I installed the required
> libraries as RPMs, and tried to build Evolution 0.9 but install it
> somewhere in my (non-root) home space. I chose ~/Evolution (with a capital
> E so as not to conflict with the ~/evolution directory). I supplied the
> prefix to 'configure', and had GNOME_PATH, PATH, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH set
> as suggested throughout compilation and installation. There were no
> errors, just some warnings (for example that things weren't being
> installed in /usr/local/lib)
>
> However, when I try to run Evolution, it successfully moves files into
> ~/evolution but then an error box pops up with:
>
> Cannot initialise the Evolution shell.
>
> No errors appear at the command line. Am I making life difficult for
> myself by trying to install in a non-standard place?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Douglas
>
> -- 
> Douglas Pierce-Price                | Queens' College
> Cavendish Astrophysics Group        | University of Cambridge
> Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge     |
>
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