[PLUG] Messed up Evolution :(

[Michael C. Robinson]

On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 14:49, gilmanhunt at comcast.net wrote:
> I seem to have slain evolution.
> Well, not /slain/. Perhaps "mortally wounded."
> 
> Here's the scenario...
> 
> I run RedHat 8.0. It works OK but I'm still fairly new to it. I like the
> package-ability of it, but I don't use it enough to be very good at it.  So I
> was using "up2date" to update my computer, and it kept saying I didn't have
> enough space on "/" to upgrade. So I used "rpm -e" to erase packages until I had
> enough space. 
> 
> I expected not to have any problems, because if there was a dependency with a
> file, I'd be alerted and all would work out, either I'd decide not to remove
> that package, or I'd remove the dependent one too. Many of the korean and
> japanese translation programs that were somehow installed fell by the roadside
> this way.
> 

Big hint is do a custom install and deselect all groups 
except for gnome.  That way whatever is needed under X etc. 
for gnome will be installed with it, but nothing else which 
usually occurs when you do a default install.  I'm not sure 
if some packages have to be installed together because of 
the way what you want was compiled or what the deal is 
sometimes, though the latter approach to installation does 
get the footprint down.  I guess with gnome programs is that 
they don't need gnome to work, or at least that's what I've 
heard.  I gave up on KDE because there are some licensing 
caveats using it for anything other than personal use and 
because it seems to be more obnoxious about dependencies 
than gnome.  As far as Redhat 8, I have an evaluation 
version and I couldn't get it to work stably, same with a 
full version of nine.  I use 7.3 without much trouble.

One problem I have noticed when gnome screen saves is that
programs such as nautilus crash creating a bunch
of errors about panels quitting when the desktop is brought
back up, if you kill nautilus and reopen though it's fine.

     --  Michael C. Robinson