Ximian Evolution is an MS Outlook clone, that (for my purposes and
considering that it's only a 1.2 release) does it better than Outlook
does. These instructions are for installing only Evolution, none of the
other Ximian products. For details and screenshots, see http://ximian.com/products/evolution/. The binary RPMs for SuSE 7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 are located at ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-evolution/, or here http://www.usr-local-bin.org
and just click the links to the Evolution downloads (these are for SuSE
8.2 only). In the Ximian ftp site, there's a lot of junk there that we're
not interested in. Obviously the important file is the evolution rpm, but
there's really no way it'd simply be as easy as installing only one RPM.
This RPM has many dependancies, which in turn have many dependancies. You
can grab them with ftp, wget, a browser, whatever. If you want to be
smooth, you can do a quick rectangle-kill and rectangle-yank with the ftp
address above and create a quick & dirty shell script to download them for
you...anyway, grab these files relevant to the SuSE version you have, and
put them into a directory together:
bonobo
bonobo-conf
control-center
evolution
gal
gconf
gnome-core
gnome-pilot
gnome-print
gnome-vfs
gtkhtml
libbonobo-conf
libgal
libghtt
libglade
libgnomeprint
libgtkhtml
libiconv
libnspr
libnss
oaf
pilot-link
ximian-menus
ximian-utils
Many of these rpm's can usually be found already on the SuSE CD's, but if
you're wanting the latest and greatest, it may need the newest of the
dependency rpm's also.
Now that you have all (hopefully) of the files, you should
check to see if there are any dependancies we have to meet.
$> su
$> cd dir-with-evolution-rpms/
$> rpm --test -Uhv *.rpm
If you get some errors due to failed dependancies, then we
need some more packages. Hopefully the dependancy is named
something sensible that will match or almost match an RPM
name from the ftp directory. Try browsing it with a web
browser and doing a 'find in page' for some substring of
the dependancy.
If you have luck like mine, that won't help. Go to www.google.com and do a
quick search for the dependancy name and ximian, you should find the
package that the resource is in easily. Grab it too, and then re-run
'rpm --test -Uhv *.rpm' again. Rinse, lather, repeat.
Eventually we'll have no more failed dependancies, meaning it's on to...
Installing:
If you've gotten this far, it should be a piece of cake to install the
RPMs. Do an
$> rpm -Uhv *.rpm
to install the whole lot of them. If RPM complains that some
are already installed, you can delete that particular RPM, or
(if you're brave), do an
$> rpm --force --nodeps *.rpm
Now 'exit' from root, and type 'evolution'. If you have path
issues, the executable is in /opt/gnome/bin/ The user's manual is installed under
Note
You may try to install the RPMS from SuSE in that case see
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