Installing
Evolution Email Client / Recovering Email For: Mepis Linux by: je.saist Now, I'm going to start by saying that I'm not real happy with the deal that Novell recently inked with Microsoft. I'm also going to say that for non-commercial users, Thunderbird, Opera, or Kmail offer excellent email clients on the Linux Platform. However, if you do need to talk to a Microsoft Exchange Server, Novell Evolution is just about your only option. This guide covers installing Evolution into Mepis, but goes a step beyond that. It will also show you how to recover your email from a previous Evolution installation. 1: We'll start by getting Mepis. Open Synaptic. It's on the desktop as the Yellow Box with a 0 underneath. ![]() 2: Input your /root password. Left Click on OK. ![]() 3: Wait for Synaptic to load. ![]() 4: Left Click on Search at the top of Synaptic. ![]() 5: Hello Search box, we meet again. ![]() 6: Type in evolution ![]() 7: Left Click on Search ![]() 8: Quite a few programs reference Evolution. Depending on the size of your screen you may need to scroll down to find the Evolution Package. In 1024*768 the Evolution Package is just at the bottom of the window. ![]() 9: Left Click on Evolution. ![]() 10: Right Click to bring up the Context Menu ![]() 11: Left Click on Mark for installation ![]() 12: Since we are using the default Mepis Distribution Evolution will need to install many files from the Gnome project in order to run. This could take a while to install. ![]() 13: Left click on Mark so that Synaptic will mark all the files that need to be downloaded. ![]() 14: We'll now see that evolution and evolution-data-server have yellow arrows pointing to the right. ![]() 15: For a fully functional Evolution, we'll need some more files. Left Click on evolution-plugins ![]() 16: Right Click and Mark for Installation. ![]() 17: The evolution-plugins will also require libexchange-storage1.2-1 Left Click on Mark to grab the library. ![]() 18: The same for evolution-exchange. Left Click to select ![]() 19: Right Click for the Context Menu. Left Click on Mark for installation. ![]() 20: Now evolution-exchange is marked for install. There are a few more packages, so go ahead and scroll down the list. ![]() And turn to Part 2 where we'll get the rest of the Evolution plugins and complete the install. I want to do Evolutions Setup, can I skip to Part 3? |