Re: [Evolution] Request advice on how to work around total failure of Evolution

[N B Day <nbday fastmail fm>]

On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 08:08 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 09:49 +0000, e-mail shaky.start wrote:
> > I find myself in a quasi-Catch-22 situation: I moved from Ubuntu 12.04
> > to Mint 16 Xfce yesterday, having made sure my Evolution client was
> > fully backed up under Ubuntu. Evolution under Mint 16 Xfce 32 bit
> > doesn't work at all - it crashes upon the first keystroke or mouse
> > action after being started.
>
> > Bug Report #129437 has been submitted along with stack trace data. 
>
> An alternative to going backward is to go forward.  For the last 2+
> years or so, for some unfathomable reason, Ubuntu (and hence Mint) has
> decided they should always ship Evolution from one release back (that
> is, if they ship Gnome 3.10 then instead of Evolution 3.10 they'll still
> ship Evolution 3.8.
>
> This started (IIRC) with Ubuntu 12.04 where they felt that the Evolution
> that was available in that release was not stable enough for an LTS
> release, but it's continued the same way since then.
>
>
> However, there is a PPA that will allow you to use a newer version of
> Evolution, which may help.  I should point out that THIS version is
> actually a prerelease of the next version... but it works OK for me.
>
> Follow directions here:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3-staging
>
> or for newer stuff, here:
>
> http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-evolution-3-11-1-on-ubuntu-13-10-saucy-salamander-and-linux-mint-16-petra-via-ppa/
It looks like this silliness may finally be at an end.  I'm using
pre-release Ubuntu 10.04 which ships Evolution 3.10.4. According to
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution#Get_the_Source_Code this is the
latest released stable version (2014-02-10); appropriate for an LTS
release.   Both work very well for me; I'm not designing bridges or
powering life-support systems here.  

The OP could wait about a month for the Ubuntu release or 2 months for
Mint and get a sable version of evo, or install the daily build of any
official flavor of Ubuntu 14.04.

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N. B. Day
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Linux 3.13.0-18-generic,  evolution 3.10.4
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