Evolution - Install issue

[dre@ms]

Hi techies,

I have Redhat enterprise linux 5 installed in my computer. I need to install Evolution in it. I downloaded the bz2 file, extracted it. But when I try to configure I get a error as follows.

[root@localhost evolution-2.22.3.1]# ./configure
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for library containing strerror... none required
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for inline... inline
checking for flex... flex
checking lex output file root... lex.yy
checking lex library... -lfl
checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes
checking for bison... no
checking for byacc... no
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
configure: error: You need bison to build Evolution

I have downloaded Bison and installed the same, but the error remains.

Pls help me to install Evolution.

T i A

[L4Linux]

Is there any particular reason you want to compile from source? You can use the package manager if you are connected to the internet
or you can download an rpm package and install it while offline. The command is:

yum install evolution

Check this list in Distrowatch about install commands. Read the one for CentOS(same as Redhat, without the brand name).

[dre@ms]

^^ First I downloaded the tar.bz2 evolution file from their website. Moved the tar.bz2 to /tmp location. Then executed the rpm -jxvf to extract. Then went into the extracted folder and executed ./configure. The result for it is already posted above.

According to your suggestion I went into /tmp and used the command. Below is the result of it.

[root@localhost tmp]# yum install evolution-2.22.3.1.tar.bz2
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
No Repositories Available to Set Up
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Setting up repositories
No Repositories Available to Set Up
Reading repository metadata in from local files
No Match for argument: evolution-2.22.3.1.tar.bz2
Nothing to do

What should I do now??

[L4Linux]

You cannot use yum with a tar.bz2 file. It only works with rpm files.
You can download the rpm file and install locally like this:

rpm -i evolution-2.22.3.1.rpm

(replace the exact name of rpm file)
The better way though, is to add the online repositories, so that yum will work and you won't have to download rpm packages yourself. But i don't know how to add repositories in rhel, as i don't use it...So you 'll have to wait for a new answer.

[dre@ms]

thnx 4 the response..can u provide me a link for evolution in rpm format?? I can get only bz2 format from their website.

[smolloy]

You shouldn't need to find an rpm at all. Just type the original command that L4Linux gave you.

sudo yum install evolution

Exactly like that. Don't change anything!

[dre@ms]

@smolloy
I have put the tar.bz2 file in the /tmp location
should I goto /tmp location and execute the other command?
or should I extract the tar.bz2 file and then go into the extracted folder and execute the above command??

Eventually I have tried executing the above command from the following locations,

/
/tmp
/evolution-2.22.3.1

All gave the same result as follows,

Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
No Repositories Available to Set Up
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Setting up repositories
No Repositories Available to Set Up
Reading repository metadata in from local files
No Match for argument: evolution-2.22.3.1.tar.bz2
Nothing to do

Pls help.

[smolloy]

No, you didn't do as I said.

You should forget about the tar.bz2 file. Erase it. Forget about it.

Now enter the command exactly as I wrote. Exactly.

Do NOT do this

sudo yum install evolution-2.22.3.1.tar.bz2

That is wrong!!

Do this,

sudo yum install evolution

It doesn't matter where you do it from, but it does matter that you type it precisely as I just wrote it.

[HROAdmin26]

I see this rehashed *every* day.

A) You are using an ENTERPRISE Linux distro and trying to install a *desktop* application. It requires a little knowledge to change a server distro into a desktop.

B) You have some bootleg copy of RedHat where you don't have access to RedHat's repositories (I'm not sure they'd even have Evolution in one anyways.) Moral: If you're going to run something you downloaded off a torrent, at least know what you're doing.

C) Since you don't have access to RH's repositories, you would have to configure some 3RD party repository - which requires *a little* knowledge of Linux/RedHat.

Please do yourself a favor and download/install Fedora.


@Smolley: I don't think you're going to find any match when there're no repositories set up. Haha...and I am too lazy to check a RHEL DVD. =)

No Repositories Available to Set Up

[smolloy]

Yeah, I was wondering about that, but I figured I'd fix his misunderstanding of the command first, and then work on adding a few repos. I was trying to think if the lack of repos meant a dodgy copy of RHEL......