Re: [Evolution] Upgrading 1.4 to 2.2

[David Malcolm <dmalcolm redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 12:51 -0700, Henry Meyerding wrote:
> I have been using Evolution 1.4 as came with my Fedora Core 2. It's
> buggy and closes whimsically, but it does work (mostly). I have been
> trying to discover a good way of upgrading this to a more recent
> version. On this list, I found the link to
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/
> and from there, I downloaded evolution-2.2.2-3.i386.rpm.
>
> Is it the accumulated wisdom of the group that I ought to just rpm -Uvh
> this package, or is this analogous to looking down the barrel of a
> shotgun while trying to make the trigger work?

That won't work directly, since there are numerous other dependencies.

Typically you'd use "yum" to grab this package since it would resolve
all the dependencies, but...

> Are there dependency issues that will make this question moot?  Should I
> wait until some other day when I upgrade to Core 3 or 4?

...it will pull in a huge number of updates (due to dependencies on
crypto libraries, the core toolkit etc etc).  So I wouldn't do that.  

It's much simpler and safer to upgrade fully to a new (stable) release
of FC.