Re: [Evolution] Updating evolution 2.24.5 to 2.30.1

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Donnerstag, den 17.06.2010, 00:03 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 10:30 -0700, larrysla66 znet com wrote:
> > Hello, Evolution 2.24.5 is currently installed in my Fedora 10. I have
> > downloaded and extracted 2.30.1 to my home folder. Now, how do I update
> > 2.24.5 to 2.30.1? Thanks, Larry
>
> Kindly stop asking the same question over and over again. You've already
> asked that question at least twice and been answered. Asking it again is
> not going to change the answer. You need to update your system to Fedora
> 13. Support for F10 by the Fedora Project has now ceased and you should
> no longer be using it as it doesn't even get security updates. Evolution
> 2.30 requires Gnome 2.30, which is only supported on F13. The
> alternative is to download the Evo source and compile it with all the
> supporting Gnome stuff it needs, which will have to be installed in a
> parallel tree. It's not an easy thing to do and you won't find many
> people willing to help you with something that is essentially pointless
> and error-prone.
>
> poc
>
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You may try to build version 2.28 on your old Fedora system. It doesn't
have the gtk 3 dependencies. I have it running nicely here on ubuntu
karmic.

-- 
thomas