HTML Plugin for Claws-Mail - 18.04?

[Lee Underwood]

So I got it going but I keep getting these errors for missing software, e.g., "configure: error: libetpan 0.57 not found". Any ideas?


On Sun, Oct 27, 2019, Lee Underwood <mail at leeunderwood.org> wrote:

> Ralf,
> 
> So I finally got around to this but ran into a problem. When I enter ./autogen.sh, I get the following:
> 
> ./autogen.sh: bison: not found
> Bison is needed to compile Claws Mail git
> 
> So, I found Bison and installed it. But I still get the same error message. I am not sure how the two work together (I'm not a programmer). Any suggestions?
> 
> BTW, what happens if the previous version of CM does not get removed?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Leer
> 
> 
> On Wed, May  1, 2019, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:06 -0400, Lee Underwood wrote:  
> > > I recently upgraded to v18.04. I was a bit disappointed to find that
> > > the HTML plugins were removed (I realize it was for security
> > > purposes). I have checked around and there doesn't seem to be an
> > > alternative. I am under the impression that there never will be one
> > > for 18.04. Is that true?
> > > 
> > > I would hate to have to change to a different email client after using
> > > CM for 10+ years.    
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Dillo is available for 18.04
> > https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/dillo.
> > 
> > I build Claws from git on 16.04. I'm neither using the webkit based, nor
> > the Dillo plug-in, IOW I don't care about HTML view at all.
> > 
> > First remove all claws-mail packages, but don't remove the dependencies.
> > Install all required "dev"elopment packages, IOW the dev packages of all
> > run-time dependencies.
> > 
> > Open a terminal and run
> > 
> > git clone git://git.claws-mail.org/claws.git
> > cd claws/
> > git checkout d2f6919629e3da32181ef9a3918db0c1821680f9   #for release 3.17.3
> > make clean
> > ./autogen.sh
> > 
> > I don't know if you need to add something to configure, if you want to
> > build the Dillo plug-in or if it's build automagically, if Dillo is
> > detected.
> > At first try to use configure as shown below and read the output, maybe
> > it confirms that the Dillo plug-in will be build, too.
> > 
> > ./configure --build=$HOSTTYPE-ubuntu-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --disable-static --enable-enchant --enable-gnutls --enable-ldap --enable-crash-dialog --enable-pgpmime-plugin --enable-spamassassin-plugin --enable-bogofilter-plugin
> > 
> > sh version   #it's helpful if you shouldn't checkout a dedicated version, to edit the checkinstall version
> > make
> > sudo checkinstall
> > ----
> > 
> > 0 -  Maintainer: [ You <Your-email-address at foo.com> ]
> > 1 -  Summary: [ A GTK+ based e-mail client - git checkout ]
> > 2 -  Name:    [ claws-mail-git ]
> > 3 -  Version: [ 3.17.3 ]
> > 4 -  Release: [ 1 ]
> > 5 -  License: [ GPL3 ]
> > 6 -  Group:   [ checkinstall ]
> > 7 -  Architecture: [ amd64 ]
> > 8 -  Source location: [ claws ]
> > 9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]
> > 10 - Requires: [  ]
> > 11 - Provides: [ claws-mail ]
> > 12 - Conflicts: [  ]
> > 13 - Replaces: [  ]
> > 
> > There's no need to add all required dependencies to the package
> > information, it's just important that the dependencies are installed.
> > Instead of splitting the package, you now have calws-mail completely
> > provided by a single package.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ralf
> > 
> > 
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