Hello everyone:

I've got a Mandrake system I use for my day-to-day business.  I do not
want to upgrade it, as it generally works fine and I've _never_ had an
upgrade-type install succeed on Linux, ever (it has always hung the
system - and I've tried it on several machines at several times.)  My
Mandrake system's most annoying feature is that its email client
(Evolution 1.4.6) is buggy and has somehow gotten worse; I've let my
mail file get large and now it no longer allows me to empty the trash
folder. I wanted to try a newer version of Evolution, but they all have
too many dependencies; I can't even get the configure script to finish. 
Then I remembered someone mentioning Balsa, whose name implies "light
weight", so I thought, this should be easier.  I didn't have to add a
lot of libraries to get the configure script to run, but the stupid
thing won't compile, due to missing header files.  It started out with a
file that I found in one of the Debian *-dev source packages, which then
required another, and then another.  After downloading and installing at
least 20 of these packages, I finally come to a dead end: gtkhtml-dev. 
It has versions only for fink, maemo, and freebsd.  There's supposedly a
gtkhtml-devel package in the SuSE hierarchy but those links to that are
broken.  Does anybody know why a package like this would be impossible
to find with Google?   Or can anybody suggest a less painful alternative
email client?

Thanks,
Vaughn


---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change  you mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss