----- Original Message ----
From: JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Simon Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Suse Linux List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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.
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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
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