On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 06:49 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:07 -0800, 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? BryanPerhaps you should figure out how things work in Linux? You need to compile it. Compiling Evo isn't the simplest place/package to get started on.
2.29.x are milestone development versions. They are provided primarily to developers (or advanced users) for tests. A specific Linux distribution may package it if it wants to, but there are no expectations of correct behaviour. For Ubuntu, we will eventually package it (or next milestone) for Lucid (10.04). We will not make it available for 9.10, though. Anyway, when Lucid it released, it will have the 2.30 (stable release) Evolution, *not* a 2.29.*. In summary: 2.29.2 is a *source* distribution of Evolution, not a compiled package. It is expected the downloader will build it. As Ng Oon-Ee points out, building Evo is not a simple task, anyway.
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