[Evolution] Re: syncing with Plm Vx [upgrading from RH 7.0 to 7.2 fixes]

[Sinzui Kobalt <sinzui cox rr com>]

> > I was in a similar situation.  I was using RH 7.0 + Ximian Gnome on a
> > Dell Latitude connecting to a visor.  When I upgraded to 7.2, evo,
> > moz,
> > and the control panels were very messed up.  I tracked the first two
> > problems to moz package libnspr4, which neither the RH upgrade or
> > redcarpet would sync to the rest of the mozilla packages.  I have not
> > fixed the the control panels, I cannot use them to set the conduit
> > configurations.  The settings are correct in ~/.gnome/gnome-pilot.d
> > (after some scary tinkering) and I am syncing correctly now.  I
> Thanks for the reply.  How did you solve the libnspr4 problem?  Uninstall
> mozilla from ximian and just use redhat's?  Uninstall redhat's and just use 
> ximian's?  Thanks for the help.

Well it's traumatic to recall those sour days.  My mood swang wildly
between tears for my lost productivity and bitter anger at cox cable my
ISP (Cox, coincidentally, I can think of a homonym that aptly describes
them) who couldn't keep the network up long enough for me to get a
package down.  And I was disappointed to that neither RedHat or Ximian's
installers noticed that the Mozilla packages were out of sync.

I prefer Galeon so I reinstalled Ximian via Red Carpet, but it only
replaced the main mozilla packages.  Mozilla, Galeon, Nauilus, and
Evolution were dead.  Uninstalling all of those via Red Carpet, then
reinstalling got me most of the correct packages, but libnspr4 was still
an older version.  I should note that I could not get rpm to uninstall
some of these because there were more than one package matching the
names of the packages I was uninstalling.  I don't know if that means
there were failed installs or wrongly forced installs during the
upgrade, but Red Carpet gladly removed them.  I downloaded libnspr4 and
libnss3 from rpmfind.net and used rpm -i --force to install them.  I
also downloaded galeon but I believe that Red Carpet would have
delivered it.

Taking no chances, I ran killev, and oaf-slay.  Mozilla, then Galeon,
then Nautilus all ran correctly as if they had been no problem. 
Evolution lost my mail setting in the fiasco, but I suspect that was my
doing.  I took the opportunity to do a fresh install and copied my old
local folders into Evolution 1.0. As I've used it since v0.6, there was
a lot of trash in ~/evolution that was better left behind.


RPMs in /var/cache/redcarpet/packages

mozilla-0.9.5-ximian.1.i386.rpm      
mozilla-psm-0.9.5-ximian.1.i386.rpm
mozilla-chat-0.9.5-ximian.1.i386.rpm 
mozilla-xmlterm-0.9.5-ximian.1.i386.rpm
mozilla-mail-0.9.5-ximian.1.i386.rpm 
nautilus-mozilla-1.0.4-ximian.10.i386.rpm

RPMs from rpmfind
libnspr4-0.9.5-ximian.1.i386.rpm
libnss3-0.9.5-ximian.1.i386.rpm
galeon-0.12.4-ximian.1.i386.rpm
 
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