Anyone using Evolution with Debian?

[fuzzy]

I downloaded what I thought I needed for evolution and it all works pretty well except I can't compose mail.
The window pops up with fields for me to enter the to: and from: and cc: and what not, but no area for me to type a message. Just a big blank area with no field to write in.
Anyone else know what I need? Is there something I may not have downloaded and installed?
Thanks in advance.


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[Mikenell]

Try typing in the blank space anyway, Mozilla's email client is like that too, there seems to be no where to type and only white space but you actually can type in it.
May be the same for evolution.
Mikenell

[fuzzy]

Hmm... couldn't even get a cursor in there. I clicked there but nothing. I'll try again tonight.
I like it but, of course, it useless unless you can compose as well as read your email. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif
I know it's far from finished, yet, but I would like to think they've gotten it to work insofar as writing email.
Thanks Mikenell

[crazyox2]

I cannot get Evolution to install on my Debian unstable box. The dependency manager is downloading the wrong version of files and stuff. What should I fix in my /etc/apt/sources.list file or in my apt-get install prodecure?


AMD700:/home/justin# apt-get install evolution
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
evolution: Depends: libbonobo1 (< 0.24) but 0.26-0.2 is to be installed
Depends: libgtkhtml5 (>= 0.7) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: bonobo (< 0.24) but 0.26-0.2 is to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
AMD700:/home/justin#

[fuzzy]

Yeah, I went and downloaded all of the appropriate (aka "old") packages manually then installed them using dpkg.
apt-get is great because it gets the latest version of whatever it is you're looking for. But in this case that is NOT what you want. Such as libbonobo.
You need libbonobo0.24.blah or earlier, but there is a libbonobo0.26.blah.
So, go to their site and download the packages and libs individually. But, then again, it doesn't quite work for me yet so maybe I'm full of it. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif


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[PLBlaze]

fuzzy,what version are you trying to install?Is it from source or binary?If you installing the evolution-0.6 from source, then take a look at the readme/install files that come with the package.As it says, GnomeAppLib (gal) is needed to sucesfully compile evolution.Maybe that's why you can't compose your mail?

gal is not available as standalone lib you could download but rather is a component of evolution and it only can be had from Gnome CVS,then compiled...Hope this helps.