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The information there had been outdated, for example Evolution doesn't use ORBit for a very long time now.
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Evolution is the integrated mail, calendar and address book suite from
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the Evolution Team.
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See https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution for more information.
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If you are using Evolution, you may wish to subscribe to the Evolution
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users mailing list. If you are interested in contributing to
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development on it, you should certainly subscribe to the Evolution
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Hackers mailing list. Visit
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https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo
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to subscribe or view archives of the Evolution mailing lists.
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If you are planning to work on any part of Evolution, please send mail
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to the mailing list first, to avoid duplicated effort (and to make
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sure that you aren't basing your work on interfaces that are expected
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to change).
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There is also a #evolution IRC channel on irc.gnome.org.
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Help for Evolution is available in the user manual (select "Help" from
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the menu after running the application), at the GNOME users help site
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(https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/), and in the --help strings
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(run "evolution --help" at the command line).
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The rest of this file is dedicated to building Evolution.
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DEPENDENCIES
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------------
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In order to build Evolution you need to have the full set of GNOME 3
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(or greater) development libraries installed.
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GNOME 3 or greater comes with most of the modern distributions, so
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in most cases it should be enough to just install all the devel
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packages from your distribution.
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Please make sure you have the most recent versions of the libraries
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installed, since bugs in the libraries can cause bugs in Evolution.
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Additional dependencies, besides the stock GNOME libraries (the
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dependencies should be compiled in the order they are listed here):
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* evolution-data-server of the same version as the Evolution is
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ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evolution-data-server
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* libsoup 2.42 or later
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ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup
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* WebKitGTK+ 2.4.9
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http://webkitgtk.org/releases/
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* Mozilla NSPR/NSS libraries
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These are needed if you want to compile Evolution with SSL and S/MIME
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support.
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http://www.mozilla.org/
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Many distributions ship these as Mozilla development
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packages.
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Other dependencies are claimed during the ./configure phase. If these are
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optional, also a parameter for the ./configure to not use that dependency
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is shown.
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CONFIGURING EVOLUTION
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---------------------
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First you have to decide whether you want to install Evolution (and
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its dependencies) into the same prefix as the rest of your GNOME
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install, or into a new prefix.
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Installing everything into the same prefix as the rest of your GNOME
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install will make it much easier to build and run programs, and easier
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to switch between using packages and building it yourself, but it may
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also make it harder to uninstall later. Also, it increases the chance
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that something goes wrong and your GNOME installation gets ruined.
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If you want to install in a different prefix, you need to do the
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following things:
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* Set the environment variables to contain a colon-separated list
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of all the directories that will be involved in the build.
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The environment variables are ACLOCAL_FLAGS, GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR,
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
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For example, if you have GNOME installed in /usr and you
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are installing Evolution and its dependencies in
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/opt/evolution, you want to do something like the following
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(assuming you are using Bash):
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export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /opt/evolution/share/aclocal"
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export GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR="/opt/evolution/share/glib-2.0/schemas"
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export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/evolution/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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export PATH=/opt/evolution/bin:$PATH
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export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/evolution/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
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* Edit the D-Bus session-local.conf file (which is normally
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search for by D-Bus in /etc/dbus-1/) to include the
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location where you are installing Evolution.
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In the example given above (GNOME in /usr, Evolution and
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dependencies in /opt/evolution), your
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session-local.conf will have to look like this:
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<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
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"-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
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"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
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<busconfig>
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<!-- Search for .service files in /usr/local -->
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<servicedir>/opt/evolution/share/dbus-1/services</servicedir>
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</busconfig>
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* Pass an appropriate --prefix parameter to the configure
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scripts of Evolution and its dependencies, eg:
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./configure --prefix=/opt/evolution
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More information on how to use the configure script is available in
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the INSTALL file which is part of the Evolution tarball.
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OPTIONAL FEATURES
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-----------------
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Some optional features can be enabled at compilation time by passing
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appropriate flags to the configure script. You can get list of all
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of the configure option by running:
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./configure --help
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BUILDING EVOLUTION
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------------------
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After the Evolution is properly configured, run:
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make
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make install
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to build it.
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