Installing ximian Evolution on rh7.2

[Evilmage]

My friend here seems to be having trouble installing ximian evolution on red hat linux 7.2
I don't seem to see the problem with his commands, and he seems pretty frustrated now 🙂

Anyone want to help out? Here's his attached email lol.



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Same old same old red hat $hit.

Damn.

Won't install, because of the goddamn red hat package manager:

[root@barlin root]# rpm -Uvh *rpm
error: failed dependencies:
libgpilotd.so.1 is needed by evolution-1.0.2-ximian.1
libgpilotdcm.so.1 is needed by evolution-1.0.2-ximian.1
libgpilotdconduit.so.1 is needed by evolution-1.0.2-ximian.1
libpisock.so.4 is needed by evolution-1.0.2-ximian.1

I've spent several hours trying to install evolution. Every time I try the install line, "rpm -Uvh *rpm", it spits back what it is missing.
Stupid, but I can work with that. Problem is, eventually all is left are some files that it doesn't have, doesn't know where to get them, and I cannot locate. Above are files I cannot find. [There are pilot-link*rpm files, but they don't work. There aren't any libgpilot or gpilot files on the Ximian site.] Below are the packages I'm trying to install. I've typed literally hundreds of commands trying to get this installed. I'll work more tomorrow; I've had enough frustration for today.

In Debian linux, one line: "apt-get install evolution".

In *BSD, one line, after CD'ing to the correct ports directory: "make; make install". [Unfortunately, evolution isn't available on OpenBSD, because Gnome isn't yet totally functional on that system.]

In Red Hat, try and try again. Repeat until exhausted.

What a bunch of $hit.
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[n0cmonkey]

Other than the missing dependancies I see no problems. (I know nothing about RPMs and dont care about them because they suck 😉)

 

[Evilmage]

I totally understand that, but look at the dependencies

libgpilotd.so.1 is needed by evolution-1.0.2-ximian.1
libgpilotdcm.so.1 is needed by evolution-1.0.2-ximian.1
libgpilotdconduit.so.1 is needed by evolution-1.0.2-ximian.1
libpisock.so.4 is needed by evolution-1.0.2-ximian.1

libgpilotd.so? there is no palm pilot nor should there be a need for it, we downloaded the gnome libraries that were required, just don't see what's wrong

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< I totally understand that, but look at the dependencies

libgpilotd.so.1 is needed by evolution-1.0.2-ximian.1
libgpilotdcm.so.1 is needed by evolution-1.0.2-ximian.1
libgpilotdconduit.so.1 is needed by evolution-1.0.2-ximian.1
libpisock.so.4 is needed by evolution-1.0.2-ximian.1

libgpilotd.so? there is no palm pilot nor should there be a need for it, we downloaded the gnome libraries that were required, just don't see what's wrong >>



There may be a no dependancies flag for rpms, you can try that. Or you can see if you can find the palm pilot libraries and install them.

 

[n0cmonkey]

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libgpilotd.so.1

Try this link for a bunch of stuff about gpilot (google cache :/): Linky

 

[Scyber]

Evolution has built in Palm pilot stuff, so it can sync with the calendar program (never did work with my palm m505). Just install it with the nodeps option. Since the only dependencies he has are palm pilot stuff and he doesn't use it, it shouldn't be a problem.

Scyber

 

[Nothinman]

libgpilotd.so? there is no palm pilot nor should there be a need for it, we downloaded the gnome libraries that were required, just don't see what's wrong

Talk to the maintainer of the RPM, if it runs fine without that lib he should take it off the deps list, if it really needs it you're out of luck. Usually compiling from source lets you remove things you don't want, like this.

Just install it with the nodeps option.

That's a hack, and a bad idea all together. What's the point of using a package manager if you're not going to use it properly? Eventually your database will get so out of wack from --nodeps use that you'll be forced to use it for everything or you'll be compiling everything from scratch.