Introduction to Evolution
The Evolution package contains an
integrated mail, calendar and address book suite designed for the
GNOME-2 environment.
Package Information
Evolution Dependencies
Required
GtkHTML-3.14.3, GNOME Doc Utils-0.10.3, and Evolution Data Server-1.10.3
Recommended (For SSL and S/MIME support)
NSS-3.11.7
The NSS package is not required if
you have Firefox-2.0.0.15, Thunderbird-2.0.0.12, SeaMonkey-1.1.9
or Mozilla
installed. These packages contain internal copies of NSS (or they used a system-installed copy). If
any of the four packages are installed, one way or another you will
already have NSS/NSPR libraries on your system.
Optional
OpenLDAP-2.3.39, HAL-0.5.9.1,
D-Bus GLib Bindings-0.74, GNOME
Spell, Heimdal-1.1 or MIT Kerberos
V5-1.6, krb4, GNOME
Pilot conduits (requires pilot-link-0.12.2 then GNOME
Pilot), GStreamer-0.8.x, NetworkManager
(download),
libnotify,
Mono, intltool-0.35.5, GTK-Doc-1.8, and
DocBook-utils-0.6.14
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/evolution
Installation of Evolution
Install Evolution by running the
following commands:
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
Note
The instructions below assume you have the NSS/NSPR libraries
installed on your system. If you elected not to install
NSS (or one of the other
packages mentioned above), you'll need to remove the following
two parameter settings from the configure command below:
--enable-nss
--enable-smime
The Evolution configure script only looks for
the stand-alone NSS package and
the Mozilla and Firefox browsers for the NSS/NSPR libraries.
If you are using Thunderbird as
your source for the NSS/NSPR libraries, you will have to add the
following two parameter settings to the configure command below:
--with-nspr-includes=/usr/include/nspr
--with-nss-includes=/usr/include/nss
./configure --prefix=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0) \
--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.18.3 \
--localstatedir=/var/lib \
--libexecdir=$(pkg-config \
--variable=prefix ORBit-2.0)/lib \
--enable-nntp \
--enable-nss \
--enable-smime &&
make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install &&
ln -v -s evolution-2.10 \
$(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0)/bin/evolution
Command Explanations
--prefix=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix
ORBit-2.0): Setting the prefix using this parameter
instead of with $GNOME_PREFIX will
ensure that the prefix is consistent with the installation
environment and the package will be installed in the correct
location.
--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.18.3: This
parameter causes the configuration files to be installed in
/etc/gnome/2.18.3 instead of
$GNOME_PREFIX/etc. Additionally (if
applicable), the parameter ensures that the GConf-2 database is correctly updated.
--localstatedir=/var/lib:
This parameter is used so that all ScrollKeeper files are installed in, and the
ScrollKeeper database is properly
updated in /var/lib/scrollkeeper
instead of some files being installed in $GNOME_PREFIX/var/scrollkeeper.
--libexecdir=$(pkg-config
--variable=prefix ORBit-2.0)/lib: This parameter causes
the libexec files to be installed in the preferred location of
$GNOME_PREFIX/lib/evolution instead
of $GNOME_PREFIX/libexec/evolution.
--enable-nntp: This
parameter is used to build the Usenet news (NNTP) backend.
--enable-nss: This
parameter is used to pull in the Mozilla Network Security Services
libraries for SSL support.
--enable-smime: This
parameter is used to pull in the Mozilla Network Security Services
libraries for S/MIME support.
--with-openldap: This parameter will
compile LDAP support into Evolution.
--with-krb5: This parameter will
compile Kerberos5 support into
Evolution.
--with-pilot-conduits: This parameter
will build the GNOME Pilot
conduits allowing you to synchronize Evolution data on a Palm device.
ln -v -s evolution-2.10 $(pkg-config
--variable=prefix ORBit-2.0)/bin/evolution: This
optional command creates a convenience symlink to the evolution-2.10 binary.
--with-kde-applnk-path=<$KDE_PREFIX/share/applnk>:
Use this parameter if you wnat the installation process to create a
.desktop file in the KDE global
desktop file directory.