On Sunday 29 January 2006 10:26, Brian Green wrote:
Followed the 0.9.1 tar.gz sequence on http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/tarballs.php until I had problems with LIBDIR after 'tar zxf libmimedir-0.5.tar.gz' (i.e. but, NOT 'tar zxf synce-libmimedir-X.X.tar.gz' (sic) ). Then couldn't make synce-rra (tried; despite it being optional)
Hi Brian, You are very adventurous being new to Linux and jumping right into installing software from tarballs on an rpm based distribution. ;-) Don't misunderstand me, some people do it all the time, but they are usually programmers who know exactly what is going on and are able to avoid complications. Please verify the sequence you referenced included the following packages and that I've marked their status on your system correctly: synce-librapi2 - built and installed synce-synce - built and installed synce-dccm - built and installed synce-serial - built and installed synce-rra - failed to build libmimedir - built and installed synce-multisync_plugin - not built or installed synce-trayicon - not built or installed synce-gnomevfs - not built or installed rapip - not built or installed
So, revert to installing: /synce/synce-0.9.0-1.i386.rpm (i.e. http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/synce/synce-0.9.0-1.i386.rpm?download) from article on synce at http://enterprise.linux.com/ via yast
Did YaST issue any warnings or error messages when it installed the rpm package? Are you able to log in and work on the system as root from a console? - Carl