Sid Boyce wrote:
Henry Standing wrote:
I have been using Evolution for a couple of years now, and am very happy with it.
I would quite like to upgrade to ver 2.0.2, can anyone give me some pointers on how to achieve this with the minimum of fuss?
SUSE 9.1 evolution-1.4.6-18.2
Thanks
Oh Boy! That's a big ask, 9.2 uses evolution 2.0.1. The apt repositry only has 1.5.7 for 9.1. Unless you can find an upgrade for gnome, it's best left alone. Gnome can cause a dependency hell, just grab any gnome app source and try building it, you'll see what I mean. I'm on the garnome mailing list and I've never got it to build successfully and all I ever see are failures, patches, new releases, failures ....... it never gets to the stage where everyone can get gnome built. Perhaps James Ogley one day will let us into his secret, may be you need a full time job building it. Regards Sid.
I've built the latest gnome, but did it by hand and had time to track down all the dependencies. It really wasn't too bad a task, though time consuming. I do have a lot of experience getting the gtk stuff to compile though as I keep up to date on gimp. There is a list at the gnome site with the correct order for compiling stuff which is VERY useful. That is the missing piece for most people , I think. The other important piece is to find out where SuSE puts the programs and libs for each piece and run "configure --prefix=" with the proper location. Jim