On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 13:01, Markus Irle wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the replies. > I do understand that it takes time to support a distribution and that > not-stable distributions won't be officially supported at all. I'm on my > own there, I can live with that... > > What I don't understand is the following: > While freedom of choice being advocated up and down the road in the > Linux community, I am forced to use Ximian's propriatry tool to simply > download some software. Why not put it up on a web site or an ftp > server. > which proprietary application? AFAIK, Red Carpet is free.
> That's just plainly beyond me, I'm afraid... > > Anyway, I finally got it to work and I'm pretty pleased now. :) > > Here's what I did. > > 1) Found somebody with Suse 8.0, have him install red-carpet and start > the installation of connector. > > 2) Kill red-carpet during package verification and grab the downloaded > rpms from the cache. > > 3) Alienised the rpm into a deb and installed the package. > 4) Added a bunch of softlinks, to have the files appear in the > /usr/share-hierarchy (they get installed in /opt) > > 5) Fixed lost dependencies, i.e. installed soup. Simply check the ouput > of the connector-binary. It'll gladly tell you which libs are missing. > > 6) libical resides in /usr/lib/libical. So either add that to ld.so.conf > or symlink the lib into /usr/lib. > well, is that Suse's libical? because there are, if I remember correctly, some problems with libical versions others than the one that comes with evolution. Make sure you are using the one shipped in evolution. cheers -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
