Re: [Evolution] How to install evolution-on (was: Minimise to tray?)

[David Burleigh <david burleigh gmx com>]

On Mon, 2017-08-21 at 23:18 +0100, Dominic Knight wrote:

> On Sun, 2017-08-20 at 17:17 +0200, Ángel wrote:
> > I am surprised by the number of replies saying that this is an
> > Arch-specific plugin or that it only works there.
> >
> > It happens to be packaged for Arch. But -as expected- it can be
> > installed from source on other distributions.
> >
> > These are the commands that would be needed for a Debian-based
> > distribution:
> >
> > sudo apt-get install build-essential git evolution-dev libebook1.2-
> > dev libecal1.2-dev libgconf2-dev libglib2.0-dev gnome-common
> > git clone https://github.com/acidrain42/evolution-on
> > cd evolution-on
> > ./autogen.sh
> > make
> > sudo make install
> >
> >
> > The only bit to take into account is that you will need at least
> > evolution 3.22 in order to be able to enable the plugin
> > (this can be detected by the presence of "undefined symbol:
> > camel_message_info_get_flags" errors printed when starting evolution
> > from the console)
> > so -while it can be compiled and installed- it won't work with the
> > evolution shipped by Debian jessie (it does work for strecht)
> >
> > It seems to work nicely, by the way.
> >
> > Best regards
>
>
> Works well in Debian Buster and a much better implementation than my
> old method of using "mail-notification"
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Thank you for the instructions. Now, if only I could find a way to install version 3.22 under Linux Mint 18.2! If anyone can help me over that hurdle, I'd be SO appreciative!