Re: [Evolution] Connector / Debian Sid - revisited

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 13:01, Markus Irle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the replies.
> I do understand that it takes time to support a distribution and that
> not-stable distributions won't be officially supported at all. I'm on my
> own there, I can live with that... 
>
> What I don't understand is the following:
> While freedom of choice being advocated up and down the road in the
> Linux community, I am forced to use Ximian's propriatry tool to simply
> download some software. Why not put it up on a web site or an ftp
> server.
which proprietary application? AFAIK, Red Carpet is free.

> That's just plainly beyond me, I'm afraid...
>
> Anyway, I finally got it to work and I'm pretty pleased now. :)
>
> Here's what I did.
>
> 1) Found somebody with Suse 8.0, have him install red-carpet and start
> the installation of connector.
>
> 2) Kill red-carpet during package verification and grab the downloaded
> rpms from the cache.
>
> 3) Alienised the rpm into a deb and installed the package.

> 4) Added a bunch of softlinks, to have the files appear in the
> /usr/share-hierarchy (they get installed in /opt)
>
> 5) Fixed lost dependencies, i.e. installed soup. Simply check the ouput
> of the connector-binary. It'll gladly tell you which libs are missing.
>
> 6) libical resides in /usr/lib/libical. So either add that to ld.so.conf
> or symlink the lib into /usr/lib.
well, is that Suse's libical? because there are, if I remember
correctly, some problems with libical versions others than the one that
comes with evolution. Make sure you are using the one shipped in
evolution.

cheers
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>