[ale] kde question

[Sean Kilpatrick]

As I said, this gets weird.
as root, running yum install gets me this:

Package 7:kdepim-4.10.5-4.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest
version
Nothing to do

If I run find <find / -type f -name kdepim -print> *
I get this message, which makes no sense:


find: ‘/run/user/1000/gvfs’: Permission denied

Which I am guessing means it couldn't look in that (empty) directory for
some unknowable reason so it quit.

so I ran yum remove, which worked, and then ran yum install, which
worked.  Still can't find the damn executable.

then read through the man file and tried this:
find / -type f -name kdepim -path ./run/user/1000 -prune -o -print *

 but I obviously do NOT have the syntax right because the output listed
every file on the box -- I think because I couldn't scroll back up to
the beginning of the list -- buffer isn't that big!

* NOTE:  the syntax for the FIND command is amazingly complex.  And the
INFO file appears to be only a copy of the MAN file. No help there. And,
of course, in keeping with Linux docs, there are no examples of how to
do things.


Sean

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On Sat, 2016-02-13 at 23:03 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> An easy option is to grab the src.rpms from fedora and do the rpmbuild process. It will take adding several devel packages.
> 
> The full method is to use mock locally or maybe get lucky and find built packages on koji.fedoraproject.org.
> 
> Ok. Went digging on koji. No kmail. No kontact. 
> 
> WTF?!?!?
> 
> Ah ha!! The package is called kdepim or kdepim3 (kde version 3). There's an epel build for centos 7.  Just use yum install kdepim with a working epel repo.
> 
> On February 13, 2016 8:28:35 PM EST, "Damon L. Chesser" <damon at damtek.com> wrote:
> >I have been googling "kmail Centos 7" and finding no joy.  It looks
> >like 
> >you can't get the full Kontact suite on CentOS 7.  This is not 
> >definitive, but Google says no joy.  This information also does not
> >help 
> >you with your specific issue of EPEL either.
> >
> >Perhaps what Jim L and Jim K said is correct, perhaps you should try 
> >Debian/ubuntu or Fedora.  A quick google does report that kmail and/or 
> >Kontact can be had for all three.
> >
> >I personally have not had a very good desktop experience with Centos 7,
> >
> >the CentOS devs have not caught up with suppling the things I am 
> >interested in using and I don't really want to compile.  Amazingly, you
> >
> >can install the latest desktop drivers from AMD cards right from the
> >AMD 
> >websites, but there is no steam, just as an example.
> >
> >I do find both Fedora > 20 and Ubuntu to give a complete desktop,
> >though 
> >if you want to run ATI/AMD cards, cut to the chase and use Ubuntu, if 
> >you want to run standard open source vid drivers, it's a toss up.
> >
> >Not  your solution, but perhaps a re-think of your distro may be in 
> >order, depending on your needs, of course.
> >
> >In the past, I have found Kontact to be the single best PIM, sadly, 
> >since KDE 4, I am not at all interested in KDE.  Evolution was OK,
> >still 
> >like it, but my favorite is thunderbird, since I am not going to run 
> >Kontact on a  XFCE destkop, though I could. It just becomes to glaring 
> >to me with integration to mix gtk and qt.
> >
> >HTH!
> >
> >
> >
> >On 02/11/2016 10:15 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> >> I am trying to run away from Evolution, which is driving me nutz, and
> >> move back to kde apps, specifically Kontact.
> >> I have all the usual repos, including epel. rpm forge, and rpm fusion
> >> (both) but I can not locate the kde set of apps.  Anyone know where I
> >> should look?
> >>
> >> This is a CentOs 7 install.
> >>
> >> Sean
> >>
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