Re: [Evolution] How do you install 2.29 on Ubuntu 9.10?

[Steve Carl <scarl bmc com>]

There is not a direct analog to downloading source and compiling it (which you would have to do in this case) and what you describe in Windows. For windows, someone would have already compiled it and wrapped the installer around it: For Linux, that is what the Distro does when they create the .deb/.rpm/.whatever

For Windows, as near as I can tell, this would be a case where you would download the source, and then install the development environment, and then load the project into the environment, and then kick off the compile inside the development tool. But very few Windows tools would give you the option of doing this, unless it is an Open Source project off someplace like SourceForge.

There are some "Recipes" around for building Evolution from source, but I have found most of them are not for the faint of heart.

Add to this that the 2.29 designation means that it is not the next release exactly. The release after 2.28 will be 2.30: Odd numbers indicate that the version is being developed... every day there are new code checkins. Things that work today will be broken tomorrow and the other way around. If you are just looking for what the new features will be, looking at the current 2.29 will only show you what they are at the point in time you did the download. Things will be added: Others removed because they could not be made stable by the 2.30 release date.

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 15:07 -0700, Bryan Karlan wrote:
>     I want to try 2.29 to see what it has improved upon.  I have little experience with Linux.  I have Ubuntu 9.10.  I have downloaded the file and have extracted it.  However, I find no install or setup file as you would in Windows.  I still can't understand why in Linux such simple things are made so darn complicated.  How can I figure this program out if I can't even figure out how to install it?
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>     Bryan