On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 12:37 +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 07:14 -0400, James White wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 12:35 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: > > > hi, > > > > > > Am Donnerstag, den 15.06.2006, 14:43 -0400 schrieb Mickey Blue Eyes: > > > > Could anyone explain why it's virtually impossible to install > > > > Evolution-2.6 > > > > and -2.4 on RHEL 4.3/CentOS-4.3? > > > Check out garnome http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/
If it works, tell me how If it breaks, you get to keep the pieces. > > > because your distro is ancient and gnome development also means "new > > > dependencies" on many other have-to-be-updated libraries on your system? > > > > So far as I can tell, RHEL 4 is a recent release and should support > > Evolution 2.6. But hey, I'm a Gentoo guy - what would I know about it? > > RHEL4 is a bit over a year old (ignore the subsequent updates - they are > fixes only, not upgrades), and is based on the same timeframe as Fedora > 3 (so basically stuff fully released at least 18 months ago). > > Its therefore Gnome 2.8, not 2.14 > > RHEL5 may well have Evolution 2.6. RHEL5 should most probably be based with Evo 2.8 > > Backporting bleeding edge to stable series is frankly a world of pain > and just a god way of getting the fun and instability of something like > Fedora, with the pain of doing your own backports, and the costs of an > Enterprise system (which won't be supported due to the mass of packages > you have replaced). > > Nigel. -- Ritesh Khadgaray LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919822394463 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
