Re: [Evolution] Trashed my Evo installation

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> Highly updated RH 7.2, Gnome 1.4, - had Evo 1.2.4.
>
> Trashed Gnome's gtk+ by experimenting with my own rpms, checkinstall and 
> things like that.

Can't you revert to the old installation? If you still have all your
(self packaged) RPMs.


> I repaired everything but Evo (it's looking for things I can't find.). I 
> now have 2 completely different gtk+ versions available in parallel, 
> gtk+-2.2.1 and gtk+-1.2.10-ximian.31. I can choose which I want for 
> compiles - I much prefer gtk+-2.2.1, it's faster and prettier.

I believe, Evolution 1.2.x needs the gtk+-1.2 libraries.

What are the error messages?
Have you tried with debugging enabled?


> I had to get Mozilla 1.3b working for mail PDQ (filters and all), all my 
> mail is in IMAP anyway, so I'm none the worse off.

Mozilla 1.3 (final) ist released for weeks, 1.4 beta is current. ;-)


> To be frank, the only things I really miss about Evo is Chris Toshok's 
> lousy ldap for my contacts. Turns out it was *good*, after all, compared 
> to Mozilla (can't drag 'n drop any more, and there's no question of 
> using ldap for contact maintenance.) And I miss the spelling checkers I 
> had :-(
>
> Having got this far, I don't really want to get back to where I was. 
> What I'd like to do, is have a go at compiling Evo 1.3. Is this 
> reasonably possible for mortals? Could Guenther please comment?

For the split of a second I could see a glow enlightening the room, as
my karma grows and all the mysteries of the universe suddenly became so
clear to me... ;-)


Sorry Tony, never tried compiling Evolution myself. I always wanted to,
seems like a reasonable start.

Have you considered giving the RH 8.0 packages a shot, as your 7.2 box
is highly updated? (seems to be the first RH system with 1.3.92 RPMs)
 ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-evolution-beta/redhat-80-i386


> I'm 
> reasonably proficient in that sort of stuff, but I don't want to start 
> debugging code to get things working. And since I have a rock-stable RH 
> 7.2 (*important*) and only the one machine, I don't want to do any OS 
> update.

Your decision. Why is RH 7.2 so important to you, if I may ask?

...guenther


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