Re: [Evolution] Calendar and Contact problems

[Ujwal Sathyam <ujwal netbrowser com>]

> On 19 May 2001 08:40:34 -0400, Christopher James Lahey wrote:
>
> >  This depends on your OS and version.  If you have
> >  evolution-0.10-ximian.1 on Red Hat 6 or 7, you should upgrade to
> >  0.10-ximian.2 if it's available.  (I've made packages, but I'm not sure
> >  if they're available yet.  (I'm not using RH.))
>
> It's not, yet. Nor are new snapshots available, yet.
>
> >  Other than this, you should be fine to upgrade.  I in fact discovered a
> >  simpler way than has been described before.  Try this:
> >
> >  killev
> >  cd ~/evolution/local/Contacts/
> >  cp addressbook.db addressbook.db.backup
> >  db_upgrade addressbook.db
>
> db_upgrade is provided (according to rpmfind.net) by the db3-utils
> package. When I try to install that package, it tells me that it
> conflicts with files from glibc (I have glibc 2.1.3-16. the default that
> comes with Mandrake 7.2). I haven't upgraded glibc, because I'm leery of
> touching anything so immensely vital to ... well, everything  :-).
>
> Do I really need to upgrade glibc, which every program needs, in order
> to see my contacts?

How about downloading and compiling the source for db3-utils? I have 
found that in many cases, some newer RPM packages demand glibc2.2, 
but the source compiles against glibc2.1 just fine. Of course, your 
rpm database gets out of whack then.

Ujwal