[gbhgbh]

I'm trying to install Ximian Evolution using Fink. It's not on the Fink package list, so I downloaded the file evolution-1.2.1.tar.gz to /sw/src/. I then ran the command 'fink install evolution', but got the error message;

Information about 779 packages read in 1 seconds.
no package found for "evolution"
Failed: no package found for specification 'evolution'!

What other procedures need to be done to install this?

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by gbhgbh:
I'm trying to install Ximian Evolution using Fink. It's not on the Fink package list, so I downloaded the file evolution-1.2.1.tar.gz to /sw/src/. I then ran the command 'fink install evolution', but got the error message;

Information about 779 packages read in 1 seconds.
no package found for "evolution"
Failed: no package found for specification 'evolution'!

What other procedures need to be done to install this?

I don't think it is possible to download your own software and put the source in /sw/src and have fink compile it...

Move evolution-1.2.1.tar.gz to ~ and try:
tar -xfvz evolution-1.2.1.tar.gz
./configure
make
sudo make install

Mind you, I don't know what Evolution is and I haven't tried those instructions. Give it a try, though

[clarkgoble]

Typically to do "make install" you have to "sudo make install" as they often install to /usr/bin and other such places.

[drmbb2]

Originally posted by gbhgbh:
I'm trying to install Ximian Evolution using Fink. It's not on the Fink package list, so I downloaded the file evolution-1.2.1.tar.gz to /sw/src/. I then ran the command 'fink install evolution', but got the error message;

Information about 779 packages read in 1 seconds.
no package found for "evolution"
Failed: no package found for specification 'evolution'!

What other procedures need to be done to install this?

Have you updated FINK recently ("fink selfupdate")? Evolution 1.0.7-2 is indeed in the current FINK tree (Package manager version: 0.11.1, Distribution version: 0.5.0a.cvs).

<edit> Note that it is in the unstable CVS branch, so you may have to edit your fink.conf file to include this part of the package tree. Also note that to install from source directly, there are a number of dependancies which must be installed (I don't know them all), including Mozilla for X (AND a bunch of it's dependant libraries I think). This link - http://primates.ximian.com/~aaron/doing/evo-osx.html - might help, but I don't know how up-to-date it is. </edit>

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by clarkgoble:
Typically to do "make install" you have to "sudo make install" as they often install to /usr/bin and other such places.

Oops, my bad.

[gbhgbh]

Thanks for the heads-up on finding Evolution in the unstable branch. I downloaded the binaries of all the dependencies with apt-get, then tried installing Evolution with Fink. However the compilation failed because it requires bonobo-1.0.3 whereas the latest binary available is 1.0.2.

If I download the source for 1.0.3, compile, and install it manually, will I need to uninstall it manually when later versions of the binary become availabe for apt-get? Or will apt-get (or fink) uninstall it for me?

[schwa]

I got Evolution to install using fink. The first time, it crapped out over bonobo, but I just ran it again and it all compiled and installed. Works pretty decently under Apple X11!

[gbhgbh]

I finally got Evolution installed using Fink Commander after many failed attempts. The installations kept failing while trying to compile gnome-libs-dev.1.4.2-2 from the unstable branch. The solution was to copy the evolution...info, evolution...patch, and db31.info files from unstable to stable, then uncheck the Use Unstable boxes in Fink's preferences, and install Evolution from the stable branch.

Now that I have Evolution 1.0.7 installed, how would I get Fink to upgrade it to the 1.2.1 version tarball that I have downloaded from the deveopment site?