How do I synchronize a Palm PDA with Evolution 2.30?

I couldn't tell you if that is indeed the problem, as I don't own a palm device, but I can confirm by looking at evolution's build log that that flag was not passed. http://paste.ubuntu.com/512047/

If you'd like to try building evolution with that flag, here are some steps.

apt-get source evolution # Download the evolution source package
sudo apt-get build-dep evolution # Install all of evolution's build dependencies
sudo apt-get install devscripts # Tools for working with Debian packages
sudo apt-get install libgnome-pilot2-dev # Extra build dependency need for the "--with-pilot-conduits" flag.

Next, you want to edit the debian/rules file. Find the section that looks like:

DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS += \
    --with-openldap \
    --enable-nls \
    --disable-scrollkeeper \
    --disable-pilot-conduits \
    --with-krb5=/usr \
    --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
    --enable-plugins=experimental \
    --enable-python \
    --disable-pst-import \
    --disable-image-inline \
    --disable-contacts-map

And replace the --disable-pilot-conduits \ flag with --enable-pilot-conduits \

You'll probably want to bump the version number in debian/changelog as well. You can do that by hand, or run something like dch -v 2.30.3-1ubuntu6+pilot-build -m "Enable pilot-conduits"

Next, the line debian/tmp/usr/share/gnome-pilot must be added to the debian/evolution-common.install file and debian/tmp/usr/lib/evolution/2.30/conduits/*.so must be added to debian/evolution.install

Then you can build the package by running debuild from inside the evolution-2.30.3 directory. Finally, install the resulting debs.

Following the excellent steps by andrewsomething and from Wu Wei Wiki, I've made a script to automatically download the source code, edit the build flags, and compile it. enable-evolution-conduits.sh

Precompiled .debs

32bit: debs are on the Wu Wei Wiki blog at the top of the page.

64bit: evolution-debs.tar.gz

Once you install all of the deb files, log out then log back in to finish.

Building from source

Save enable-evolution-conduits.sh and set it as executable. (Right-click the file, go to Properties. Click the Permissions tab, and check the box "Allow executing file as program")

Double-click the file, and choose "Run in Terminal", and supply your password when asked. It may take up to an hour to compile Evolution. To finish installing the compiled debs, you might have to enter your password again. When complete, log out then log back in.

How do I synchronize a Palm PDA with Evolution 2.30?

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