Clarification of what needs to be done to make kdepim from KDE 3.4.1 fully functionial with Kolab2

John Dempsey johnd at quaketech.com
Tue Jun 21 21:09:04 CEST 2005


I'm setting up Kolab2 for a mixed Windows/Linux/Solaris environment, and so 
far everything seems to be working from the Kolab end, and I've got 
connectivity working with Outlook 2003 via Toltec2 pretty well, after a few 
false starts. 

 I want to get Kontact working with it as well, but I don't seem to have the 
"Kolab" resource that I am supposed to select in  KDE resources configuration 
in KDE Control Centre as mentioned in the Proko2 Doc2 document (latest 
version from cvs). I'm using KDE 3.4 built for Solaris9 (from contrib on 
kde.org) and have upgraded my RedHat EL3 workstations with the latest KDE 
from  http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/ (ver 3.4.1). 

I have seen a kdepim-3.3.proko2.0.rc3.tar, that seems to be the full package 
that I would need to build, but some mail messages suggest that 3.4.1 is the 
way to go, since some issues with LDAP have been fixed in it. 

I have seen messages that suggest the "checkout_proko2.sh" script is needed 
but in what capacity? 

Proko2 Doc2 gives building instructions for kdepim (suggesting a requirement 
of "Qt 3.2.3 or a more recent version, as well as KDE 3.2") and suggest using 
the latest released KDE tarballs (which would be 3.4.1), but as I have 
mentioned above, both of the prebuilt KDE packages I am using don't have the 
Kolab resource to choose from in the KDE Control Panel.

As a typically over worked IT support person, I try to use prebuilt packages 
where ever possible, but don't mind building things from scratch when 
required.   I am a pretty techical "implementor", so a lot of this stuff is 
within my abilities, but it would be very very helpful to everyone if some 
things were explained more clearly.  I've spent a lot of time over the last 
few weeks eeking out the details to get this far. To make Kolab popular, more 
practical/complete instructions need to be written(I don't mind helping, but 
Im sure someone could fill in the gaps of my knowledge). 

SO, What do I need to do to get kdepim 3.4 or 3.4.1 fully enabled for Kolab2?

Do I need to build kdepim 3.4.1 with extra components that are downloaded with 
the checkout_proko2.sh script?

Filling in the gaps will help everyone..
Thanks
JD




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