[lug] Building and running evlution on RHEL 4

[Hugh Brown]

I just found the ldap functionality in evolution on RHEL4.

Go to the Contacts view then, File->New->Addressbook and then you can
enter in the ldap info.

Hugh

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Michael Hirsch wrote:

> Anyone have any experience building evolution on RHEL 4?  I'm helping
> someone try to get evolution connected to our Exchange server on RHEL
> 4 with little success.
>
> The evolution shipping with the distribution seems to read email okay
> (a little slow...) but we couldn't get it to connect with the LDAP
> directory at all.  The option is greyed out in the dialoge box to
> connect to LDAP.  It appears the RH disabled it, or rather did not
> enable it.
>
> So, one to the source!  We downloaded all the tar-balls from the
> evolution homepage.  We build everything and install it in /opt.  For
> good measure we even removed all the evolution RPMs.  But now, when we
> try to run it we get a dialogue with: "Evolution can not start.  You
> system configuration does not match your Evolutions configuration."
>
> On the commandline the following is printed:
> es menu class init
> evolution-shell-Message: Killing old version of evolution-data-server...
>
> Since we removed all the old versions, I'm confused as to how I can be
> running an old version of evolution-data-server.
>
> Any hints?  Thanks,
>
> Michael