Re: Upgrading Evolution

> > > I did find the following note:
> > > Novell Evolution 1.4 and Evolution Connector 1.4 are supported on Red
> > > Hat 7.3 and Red Hat 8.0 only when Ximian Desktop 2 is also installed.
> > > Ximian Evolution 1.4 is a GNOME 2 based application and requires either
> > > a Linux distribution that supports GNOME 2 natively OR Ximian Desktop 2
> > > (based on GNOME 2) to be present.
> 
> This is the issue on RH8.0 (and 7.3 before it).  Its Gnome is
> sufficiently dated that installing the current stable Evolution by
> itself causes problems for other software, and the best solution is to
> install XD2, which provides sufficiently updated versions of that
> software as to avoid the attendant problems.
> 
> > I can confirm the latter, but didn't remember RH8 doesn't ship Gnome 2
> > OTOH... ;)
> > 
> > So it seems, you will need a more recent distro or XD2. Unfortunately I
> > won't be of great help regarding installing XD2.
> 
> Yeah, sorry about that.

Heh, that's what you get for running Mandrake. ;-)

Just to clarify: It won't be a good idea these days anyway, as XD2 is
based on an older Gnome version, than is shipped with recent distros.
Like Mark mentioned quite often.

Besides that, I prefer to compile the latest stable Gnome Desktop
myself... :)


> >  But a first hint might
> > be your "/etc/redhat-release" file. The installer checks this file, to
> > determine the proper version to install.
> 
> XD2 is already an option on 8.0, as Hal indicated.

Doh! My fault, I confused this thread with another recent post,
mentioning a not detected OS. Well, please ignore it then...


> > Anyway, you don't have to buy anything, even when installing XD2. And
> > you don't need Mono for Evolution at all.
> 
> Mono is just using the same installer as that used by XD2 and Evolution
> (where it's available independent of XD2).

It is -- but it is worth mentioning, that he won't need it for running
Evolution or XD2.

...guenther


-- 
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