Re: [Evolution] Opening Attachments

[Etienne Tourigny <et omeo ca>]

Hi,

Checkinstall is OK but it sometimes adds unnecessary files.  Better to
go with .spec files.  The packages you built should have .spec files,
and if not look around for the SRPMS.  If you do, put the .spec file in
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS and the sources in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and
then run the command "rpm -ba <specfile>".  You can also specify a
different prefix than /usr/src/redhat.

You can find a howto at http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/.

Once you've done one it's pretty easy.  It requires a bit more work if
you need to patch the sources, but it's not that hard.

Etienne

On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 10:38, Paul Hands wrote:
> OK,
>
> I made an RPM with checkinstall.  It's about 4.7M in size.  It may
> well depend on a newer version of  gnome-libs (1.4.1.7-105).  I can
> send it to anyone who wants to try it out.
>
> The RPM description is :-
>
>
> name
> control-center
> summary
> Gnome Control Center 1.4.0.1 for SuSE 8.1, i386 
> version
> 1.4.0.1 -1 
> group
> Applications/System 
> size
> 9656896 
> description
> Gnome Control Center 1.4.0.1 for SuSE 8.1, i386 Should fix missing
> file-types-capplet bug. 
> depends
> ld-linux.so.2 , libICE.so.6 , libIIOP.so.0 , libImlib.so.1 ,
> libORBit.so.0 , libORBitCosNaming.so.0 , libORBitutil.so.0 ,
> libSM.so.6 , libX11.so.6 , libXext.so.6 , libXi.so.6 , libXpm.so.4 ,
> libart_lgpl.so.2 , libaudiofile.so.0 , libc.so.6 ,
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) , libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) , libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) ,
> libcapplet.so.0 , libcrypto.so.0.9.6 , libdb.so.2 , libdl.so.2 ,
> libgconf-1.so.1 , libgconf-gtk-1.so.1 , libgdk-1.2.so.0 ,
> libgdk_imlib.so.1 , libgdk_pixbuf.so.2 , libglib-1.2.so.0 ,
> libgmodule-1.2.so.0 , libgnome.so.32 , libgnomesupport.so.0 ,
> libgnomeui.so.32 , libgnomevfs.so.0 , libgnorba.so.27 ,
> libgthread-1.2.so.0 , libgtk-1.2.so.0 , libgtkxmhtml.so.1 ,
> libjpeg.so.62 , libm.so.6 , liboaf.so.0 , libpng12.so.0 , libpopt.so.0
> , libpthread.so.0 , libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) , librt.so.1 ,
> libssl.so.0.9.6 , libtiff.so.3 , libungif.so.4 , libxml.so.1 ,
> libz.so.1 
> provides
> control-center, libcapplet.so.0
> distribution
> (none) 
> vendor
> (none) 
> packager
> checkinstall-1.5.2 
> build-time
> Thu 10 Apr 2003 02:22:23 PM GMT 
> filename
> /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/ control-center-1.4.0.1-1.i386.rpm
>
>
> Paul
>
> On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 12:43, Paul Hands wrote: 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I also tried various ways to solve this by downloading other/older
> > rpms, but nothing worked.
> >
> > Eventually, I downloaded the sources for control-center 1.4 from 
> > www.gnome.org and compiled it myself.  I encountered a number of
> > dependency issues, which meant adding a few  -devel packages
> > (libxslt-devel, libxml-devel, oaf-devel, in my case) and also having
> > to download and compile the source for gnome-libs 1.4 first.  The
> > whole process took about an hour, and now I have the control center
> > file types and programs operating happily.  If I knew how to make an
> > RPM, I'd send it on.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 15:53, John Schmidt wrote: 
> > > It's a SUSE issue.  I experienced the exact same behavior in 8.1. 
> > > Ended up
> > > loading SUSE 8.0 on another computer, setting up an account for
> > > myself and
> > > then copying the .gnome directory from my account over to my 8.1
> > > computer.
> > > I can now launch attachments.
> > >
> > > Prior to doing the above, you might try running gnomecc from the
> > > command
> > > line and see if you can configure "File Types and Programs".  Mine
> > > came
> > > up empty until I copied in the 8.0 .gnome tree...
> > >
> > > I saw no acknowledgement of this on Suse's web site.
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 09:40, Jean Neron wrote:  
> > > > I think I've had this problem since I switched to SuSE 8.1. The
> > > > problem is that evolution doesn't seem to know anything about
> > > > file associations. No matter what the attachment is, evo only
> > > > gives me the choice to save it. Previously I used to have
> > > > choices to open with various programs, depending on the file
> > > > type. I know this is maintained in Gnome somewhere, but I
> > > > believe it is set up correctly, because when I run Nautilus, it
> > > > knows what programs are used for which files It's only evo that
> > > > doesn't seem to know.
> > > >
> > > > Where does it look for this information? I'm running under KDE.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Jean
> > > >
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