Re: [Evolution] Evolution doesn't start

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 13:26 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 15:17 +0100, Jörg Jenetzky wrote:
> > Anyway, that's the newest out of the Ubuntu repositories.
>
> The newest _for your release of Mint_ (you don't say which release
> you're using, but it seems pretty old).  If you update to a newer
> version of Mint, you'll get a newer version of Evolution.  Mint, like
> virtually every other distribution out there including Ubuntu, doesn't
> update the versions of packages in most packages in older distributions;
> they only backport bugfixes and security fixes.

This is especially true of Evolution because its version is tied to the
installed version of Gnome.

poc