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evolution package

Evolution has disapeard from Ubuntu 11.10

Asked by Warren Hill

I have been using Ubuntu for some years now but I can no longer access my email as evolution has disappeared from my system. Its still in the menu but wont run.

I am using 'gnome-session-fallback' but I doubt that is relevant to the situation

If I try and run from a terminal I get the following

warren@wmh-lt:~$ evolution
The program 'evolution' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install evolution

When I try to re-install I get this

warren@wmh-lt:~$ sudo apt-get install evolution
[sudo] password for warren:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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 (= 3.2.1-0ubuntu1) but 2.32.2-0ubuntu7 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
warren@wmh-lt:~$

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#1

Problem solved

No Idea why this happed but

sudo apt-get install evolution-common

sudo apt-get install evolution

fixed the issue. I got a message that the mail format had changed and I had to migrate. Clicked "Migrate Now" and all appears to be fixed.

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Ronan Lamy (ronan-lamy) said : 		#2

The same thing just happened to me, and the same fix worked. I tried to send an email while upgrading, I guess that must have messed things up (the mail was finally sent the first time I opened Evolution again).