----- Original Message ---- From: JP Rosevear <jpr@novell.com> To: Simon Roberts <thorpflyer@yahoo.com> Cc: Suse Linux List <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 6:50:27 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Evolution/palm sync woes On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 13:00 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to get my girlfriend a Linux system, and am making a fool of myself :(

She needs to have a working mechanism for syncing her palm device. I proudly told her that evolution would do this without difficulty. Hah, bloody wrong :( I've been round the houses with 10.2, first it didn't recognize the device, then I tried to install new versions, all manner of nonsense. I've tried compiling and installing from source, but now I think I'm close.

I finally figured out that the system wasn't doing the patch downloads, so when I got that configured properly, I found hundreds of updates, including evolution and gnome-pilot updates. Well, next I found that the system would recognize the palm, and would sync, but that there were no evolution conduits offered. Then I located them in /opt/gnome/share/blahblah/conduits, but worked out that the set the system was working with are in /usr/local...blah. So, I copied them over.

Why is the system set in /usr/local? Nothing from the official distribution should be in there. Sounds like either a source install or rpms from a non-standard repo. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I suspect this is a consequence of my having tried to build from source previously. That's part of my problem; the original install with 10.2 didn't work at all for this device, and there were no patches. I tried to build from scratch, that didn't work either (it's a while ago now, so I've lost track of exactly what did happen, but I don't think everything compiled). Then in the last couple of days I found the patches and installed them, then discovered that I could not see the e-xxx conduits, and that's where I am now. Which was why part of my original question was, how do I clean up and do a fresh install of just the evolution, gnome-pilot, etc. related parts. There's configuration and stuff on this machine that I don't want to trash by a fresh install of the whole system, but I think if I can reinstall the evolution and pilot stuff, then patch it, it might well work ok. Suggestions? Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz ____________________________________________________________________________________Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're surfing. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/index.php -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org