Comment 38 for bug 66355

Hi Matt,
in between it is all fine with your great help. My Sony Clie is properly
working together with gnome-pilot and all syncs are running smoothly.
The last problem I had to solve was that the calendar sync stopped
somewhen in between. I solved this problem by doing a data reduction on
my palm before and deleting the dates older than 6 month from now on my
palm. Now all works fine.
I really want to say thank you for this great help and I am now the more
convinced that my change from Windows to Ubuntu was the right desicion.
Thanks a lot
Phil

Am Donnerstag, den 23.11.2006, 22:45 +0000 schrieb Matt Davey:

> Hi Phil,
> It looks as though gnome-pilot hasn't actually been built correctly. I don't know what steps you took (I didn't give detailed instructions, because usually people asking for patches and building packages are old hands at this stuff).
>
> You say you built "gnome-pilot 1.161", but 1.161 refers to one single
> file from the gnome-pilot source tree. So I don't know whether you
> checked out the whole gnome-pilot source from CVS (I doubt it) or just
> dropped the updated gpilotd.c file into some other source distribution
> of gnome-pilot.
>
> Anyway, here are some more detailed instructions that might help you along:
> 1. download gnome-pilot 2.0.15 from gnome.org:
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-pilot/2.0/gnome-pilot-2.0.15.tar.gz
> 2. unpack the file using 'tar xzf gnome-pilot-2.0.15.tar.gz'
> 3. change into the gnome-pilot-2.0.15 directory.
> 4. build it, configuring it to put the installation somewhere that won't conflict with your system installation (so that if an updated Edgy version is released you can easily upgrade). Here's how to build it:
> 4a. "./configure --prefix=/tmp/gp" <-- or use some other location instead of /tmp/gp
> 4b. "make && make install"
> 5. Now, start the background daemon: "killall gpilotd; /tmp/gp/libexec/gpilotd"
> 6. In another window, start the corresponding config applet:
> "/tmp/gp/bin/gpilotd-control-applet"
>
> With any luck, you'll be in business, i.e. able to configure and enable the backup conduit. You won't have Evolution conduits at this stage. If you want those,
> copy the ".conduit" files from your system installation (I'm not 100% where they go on Ubuntu, so do 'locate e-address | grep conduit') and put them into /tmp/gp/share/gnome-pilot/conduits/.
>
> These instructions are off the top of my head, so apologies if I've made
> some mistakes.
>

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