Re: [Evolution] Evolution Not Working with after Gnome 2.4 upgrade...

[Donald Henson <wepin wepin com>]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 22:53, Trowbridge Erich wrote:
> Please help me. This problem is killing me.I don't
> have access to my ximian contacts until I get is
> resolved, essentially grinding my work life to a
> standstill.
>
> 	I finally finished upgrading my gnome2.2 to 2.4 by
> installing source packages individually. Halfway
> through, ximian stopped working, which I beileve has
> something to do with my ORBit version changing to 2.81
> from 2.6. My goal is to get ximian working again,
> preferably with the latest version.  The error at the
> time reported by evolution was something about "cannot
> access the evolution shell" 
>
> So I uninstall my current version, and try to do a
> fresh install of evolution...
>
> I go to the ximian installer and ximian reports: 
> The installer was unable to find any Ximian products
> for your operating system.
> Please mail the full text of this error to
> <distribution ximian com>.
>
> So I set about installing Ximian from source, and run
> into a bunch of problems... I get the source evolution
> tarball, gobble through the README, and try to compile
> ximian from source with flags correct (I hope) for my
> system. I hack through a bunch of problems (no source
> gal2.2, etc) and finally get things going to this
> point...
>  	./configure PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
>  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/
> --enable-pilot-conduits=no --enable-nss=no
> --prefix=/usr/local
> --with-db3-includes=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.1/include 
> --with-db3-libs=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.1/lib
>
> checking for libecal-1.0... Package libecal-1.0 was
> not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing
> `libecal-1.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'libecal-1.0' found
>  
> I know that libecal is in the evolution-data-server
> package on CVS. I try to get this running, but I run
> into more problems with ACLOCAL_PATH, etc. I'm beaten.
> Am I even on the right track? Do I need
> evolution-data-server to compile evolution?  Is there
> something i can do to get the ximian installer to
> work? I understand that the reason evolution broke has
> something to do with the 2.8 version of ORBit. Please
> help me. How can I get my mail program working again?
> For me, Evolution was the best thing about running
> linux on the desktop. 
>
> Thanks,
> Erich Trowbridge
> Linux N00b
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This is not going to be of much help to you but over on the SuSE list, at least two people have issued warnings not to install Gnome 2.4 because it breaks a lot of things. You might try posting your problem to the SuSE list. You might find someone willing to help you back out of Gnome 2.4.

Don Henson