No channels on SuSE-9.0 (with KDE)

Hello,

all I really want is install the Exchange Connector into my perfectly running SuSE 9.0
Professional with KDE-3.1. I have next to no other Gnome apps running, and no Ximian Desktop.
Unfortunately, the Connector seems to be available only through Red Carpet.

So I dowloaded and installed from ftp.ximian.com today:

lap056:/usr/local # rpm -Uvh python-numeric (from SuSE-9.0) python-gtk-2.0.0-31.ximian.2.i586.rpm rcd-2.2.0-0.ximian.8.2.i586.rpm rug-2.2.0-0.ximian.8.0.i586.rpm red-carpet-2.2.3-0.ximian.8.0.i586.rpm (all from ftp.ximian.com)
lap056:/usr/local # /etc/init.d/rcd start
lap056:/usr/local # red-carpet
	I set a proxy-URL of http://wwwproxy.iese.fhg.de:81 
        However, still the channel is empty (even after restarting rcd and red-carpet)

The problem shows here:

lap056:/usr/local # tail /var/log/rcd/rcd-messages
May 17 08:36:21 [8365] Done loading system packages
May 17 08:36:22 [8365] id=1 COMPLETE 'Downloading http://red-carpet.ximian.com/serviceinfo.xml' time=1s (failed)
May 17 08:36:22 [8365] Unable to download service info: IO error - Soup error: Forbidden (403)
May 17 08:36:22 [8365] Unable to load service for default host URL 'http://red-carpet.ximian.com': Unable to download service info: IO error - Soup error: Forbidden (403)
May 17 08:36:22 [8365] Can't find rcd 1.x subscription file '/var/lib/redcarpet/subscriptions.xml'
May 17 08:36:22 [8365] Starting heartbeat
May 17 08:36:32 [8365] Loading system packages
May 17 08:36:34 [8365] Done loading system packages
May 17 08:37:43 [8365] Loading system packages
May 17 08:37:44 [8365] Done loading system packages

I can dowload http://red-carpet.ximian.com/serviceinfo.xml just fine using Mozilla
(however, copying that into a manually created  /var/lib/rcd does not change anything),
so this is not a network problem.

Can anyone show me how to get channels in red-carpet, or (even better) how
to install the Connector without Red Carpet?

Thanks for your help,
Holger Peine

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Dr. Holger Peine
Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Phone +49-6301-707-134, Fax -209 (shared)
www.iese.fraunhofer.de/Staff/peine -- PGP key on request or via pgp.mit.edu

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