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Evolutions stopped working after upgrade to 11.10

Asked by maridap

I was using evolutions as my email client, I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 and now evolutions doesn't work now.

The icon is still there but it no longer works.

I went to the software and it doen't show evolutions as being intalled now.

I tried intalling it and I get an error saying I'm missing Package dependencies but it doesn't say which ones I'm missing.

It looks like I lost all my e-mails, contacts and my mail folders with the upgrade.

Please tell me there's a way to get evolutions working and get my email contacts and folders.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

To see startup error of evolution, open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -f upgrade
sudo apt-get -f dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get --reinstall install evolution

give your user passwd when requested, you will not get any chras back on screen when you type your password, so type then press enter.

Then retry to start evolution from menu, if it doesn't work, using terminal type:

evolution

press enter, please report the error you get here.

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maridap (maridap) said : 		#2

The first 2 commands worked but
After typring sudo apt-get -f upgrade, the system gave me the feedback below:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  evolution-common evolution-plugins
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

Also got this:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 evolution : Depends: evolution-common (= 3.2.0-0ubuntu2) but 2.32.2-0ubuntu7 is to be installed

Does this mean Ububtu 11.10 was released without a stable version of evolutions that can be installed with it?
If so how can I go back to the previous version on Ubuntu?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

Please try this:

sudo apt-get remove evolution-*
sudo apt-get install evolution

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maridap (maridap) said : 		#4

In doing this will I loose my contacts in evolutions. Even though it doesn't work, the program is still ther with my email folders and contacts. If I do the "remove evolution" command will it delete all my folder?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

no

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maridap (maridap) said : 		#6

That fixed it, THANKS.