Evolution Crashes!

[NoOp]

On 03/02/2007 11:26 AM, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> NoOp wrote:

>> BTW: on my test machine I found out that if you "apt-get remove firefox"
>> the whole system (Gnome wise) craps out on a 'killall gnome-panel' or
>> reboot.
>> 
>> I thought, well I'll just remove the 4 updates and simply install
>> Firefox 2.x from the mozilla website. Easy enough to install FF 2.x from
>> Mozilla, *not* so easy/wise to remove "Ubuntu's Firefox". Seems that
>> Ubuntu has used FF as a meta package:
>> 
>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>   firefox firefox-gnome-support gnome-app-install gnome-core
>>   gnome-desktop-environment gramps-help mozilla-mplayer yelp
>> 
>> I ended up having to reinstall the infamous ubuntu-desktop to get things
>> working again.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Please don't remove Firefox, to get your system to play nice you should 
> be using dpkg-divert and co. Look here on how to do it:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxNewVersion
> 

Thanks for that :-)

While I'm messing about on the test system I'll have a go at compiling &
installing Evolution 2.8 - any hints there? Last time I tried I ended up
installing a billion lib dev packages & think I gave up when the CAMEL's
broke.