Re: [Evolution] How to update Evo and deal with Old version?

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf mardorf alice-dsl net>]

On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 10:39 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 10:33 +1300, Chris and Tracey wrote:
> > I've decided to upgrade from 3.4.4 to 3.10 and these are my steps so
> > far - however unsure next steps
> >
> > 1 - make backup of Evo emails files etc in program
> > 2 - downloaded from Evo site current stable release
> > 3 - saved to Home/chris/evoupdate
> > 4 - In terminal ran command .configure with no other detail - does
> > this need a file ref??
> > 5 - In terminal ran command sudo make install - no other detail...
> > password required Y
> >     Error - *** No rule to make target `install'
> >
> > Can you see what the problem is and if I'm doing this correctly or
> > recommend corrections please?
>
> You missed a step between configure and make install:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configure_script#Usage
>
> Plus not sure which distribution and distribution version you try this
> on, so I cannot say anything about other dependencies which might also
> require updating.

Assumed you should use a distro that does use RPM or DEB packages, then
you could run  checkinstall  instead of  make install , this often can
build a package, even if you shouldn't know how to build packages
yourself. FWIW, checkinstall doesn't help you regarding to dependencies,
you still need to check out this on your own.