Evolution desperation (forgive me, SuSE, for I have sinned...)
I've been using Evolution for a few months now, but it ran slower than molasses in December on my SuSE 7.3 box. I **had** upgraded it to 0.99.whatever (don't ask me how...I'm still burning incense to appease the little gnomes that nip at my feet a night), but I had hoped to upgrade to 1.03.whatever in an attempt to speed it up. Silly me. Silly, silly, assinine me. I dled the latest from ximian, both tarball and rpm (I **thought** I might try to compile it...harumph.) with all the packages I thought I needed (again, both tarball and rpm). Compiling, I spent 24 hours trying to chase down dependencies, compiling and re-compiling packages with the --prefix=/opt/gnome. When that failed (due to giving up on trying to edit makefiles--something I'm very inexperienced at), I started using yast to install the rpms. Still no dice. Tried both the ximian and the non-ximian rpms (yes, I uninstalled before installing the next). Another 24 hours and I am back to using Balsa (no complaints...realized I missed it's speed and simplicity) but I really want to get Evolution working again (I use it as much for its PIM capability as its e-mail). Could someone help me recover? Do I need to wipe all the previous installs (both rpms and tarballs with 'make uninstall')? How can I get Evolution to function again WITHOUT installing the whole package? I really prefer stock Gnome to Ximian as I have more flexibility in configuring my desktop and getting stuff to work. Thank you in advance as I go back to the great OSS altar and burn more incense (what's that, little gnome, you want the red stick instead of the green tonight???? Promise to leave my cats alone????) ;-> Specs: SuSE 7.3 on a AMD 450 using Gnome 1.4.
I used apt to install it. At the end it all comes down to single command "apt-get install evolution" :) However, there is no public apt repository holding suse packages. If you're interested refer to http://apt4rpm.sf.net, it explains a bit how to setup you're own apt repository/server Op woensdag 20 februari 2002 05:27, schreef ZephyrQ:
I've been using Evolution for a few months now, but it ran slower than molasses in December on my SuSE 7.3 box. I **had** upgraded it to 0.99.whatever (don't ask me how...I'm still burning incense to appease the little gnomes that nip at my feet a night), but I had hoped to upgrade to 1.03.whatever in an attempt to speed it up.
Silly me. Silly, silly, assinine me.
I dled the latest from ximian, both tarball and rpm (I **thought** I might try to compile it...harumph.) with all the packages I thought I needed (again, both tarball and rpm).
Compiling, I spent 24 hours trying to chase down dependencies, compiling and re-compiling packages with the --prefix=/opt/gnome. When that failed (due to giving up on trying to edit makefiles--something I'm very inexperienced at), I started using yast to install the rpms. Still no dice. Tried both the ximian and the non-ximian rpms (yes, I uninstalled before installing the next). Another 24 hours and I am back to using Balsa (no complaints...realized I missed it's speed and simplicity) but I really want to get Evolution working again (I use it as much for its PIM capability as its e-mail).
Could someone help me recover? Do I need to wipe all the previous installs (both rpms and tarballs with 'make uninstall')? How can I get Evolution to function again WITHOUT installing the whole package? I really prefer stock Gnome to Ximian as I have more flexibility in configuring my desktop and getting stuff to work.
Thank you in advance as I go back to the great OSS altar and burn more incense (what's that, little gnome, you want the red stick instead of the green tonight???? Promise to leave my cats alone????) ;->
Specs: SuSE 7.3 on a AMD 450 using Gnome 1.4.
-- Richard Bos For those without home the journey is endless
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