[Nautilus-list] FYI, Nautilus Snapshot + Evolution Snapshot HOWTO

[Garrett Mickelson <garrett p77 penguincomputing com>]

Hello All,
For those of you dying to have both Nautilus hourly snaps and Evolution
daily snaps on your system, here is what to do: (BTW, I've only done
this with Red Hat 7.1 Beta, Fisher)
<proceed at your own risk>
Create a couple of directories to store the files in. I created
/home/garrett/Eazel_Preview, /home/garrett/Eazel_Snaps, and
/home/garrett/Evo_Snaps. Also back up your evolution directory!
You then have to download the RPM's for Nautilus Preview Release 3 into
the Eazel_Preview directory
After that you need to do the same for Nautilus hourly snapshots
(including the mozilla files and if on Red Hat 7.x the bz2 file).
IMPORTANT--> For the Evolution snapshots, download ONLY evolution, gal,
gal-devel, libgal, gtkhtml, and gtkhtml-devel. These should work fine
with the other programs installed by Nautilus.
Once you have all the RPMs then log out of GNOME and X. At the command
line su to root, run the killev command, and the oaf-slay command. Also
remove the orbit temp files from the /tmp directory. Then go into the
Eazel_Preview directory and install those using the rpm command. I had
to --force --nodep to get everything installed. I have these programs
running on test systems and on my backed-up workstation, so I can
corrupt data and libraries to my heart's content, though I've yet to
have any trouble.
After doing the Preview, do the same to the Eazel_Snaps and in the
Evo_Snaps ONLY install gal, gal-devel, gtkhtml, gtkhtml-devel, libgal,
and evolution. (note, these are the only files not shared by both
programs....)
Then, restart X and once in GNOME, start Nautilus. It will automatically
start the Nautilus desktop. I put the nautilus command in the Startup
Programs under the GNOME control center, with a priority of 25. If the
priority is set to too low of a number, i.e. 1 or 5 then Nautilus starts
before GMC and you get a lot of crap in you taskbar not to mention
overlapping icons on your desktop.
Some of you might be thinking, "Why install Nautilus Preview 3 first?".
Good question, and I don't have an answer except to say that it seemed
like a good call, so that there is a base to install the snapshots from.
???? It works, so I'm stick'in with that method. I've now loaded 3
machines this way, all on Red Hat 7.1 Beta. Every morning the first
thing I do when I arrive at work is to go through all this on my main
test system, run Evolution and make sure it's not broken in any way that
would hamper my work, then I do all this on my workstation. Remember,
You've Been Warned, this may not work!!!! One other thing, RPM 4.0.2
that comes with Nautilus PR3 causes Ximian GNOME Update to not be able
to install updates. When I run Update, in dumps all the files into
/var/cache/helix-install. Once the installer crashes, I go into that
directory and install with the rpm command.

For those of you who pull this off, enjoy!

Garrett Mickelson  


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Garrett Mickelson               Linux Systems Engineer
415.358.2600                    www.penguincomputing.com