[Kde-pim] Akonadi question

[roide]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Alojz Stanič <alojz.stanich at siol.net>wrote:

> Nice day!
> [Akonadi is not known as much to discuss about in the Forum, I
> think so.]
>

About Akonadi:

Akonadi is a standalone server, extensible cross-desktop storage service for
PIM and meta-data, which the PIM applications use to save the data. Akonadi
enables them to put their data in a single data pool so that they can share
data with other applications as well. This takes care of some memory issues
that were there initially before Akonadi(like when 2 different applications
request same data, the data has to be loaded into the memory twice). PIM
data accessible from a central place enables the possibility of synchronous
access, locking and reduces memory consumption.


> I am a general user. I shifted to Mandriva 2009 Spring Free (KDE
> 4.2.2). Then I found out that there was no KAddressBook included.
> Surprised! Mandriva forum → Control Centre and I installed
> KAddressBook from DVD. OK. And I installed KDE Pim-4 Akonadi.
> I have had just a slight idea about Akonadi. I didn't risk to install
> KDE Pim-4 Groupware server, not knowing it at all.
>
> Then in KMail or Contact every time has appeared "Starting
> Akonadi server " (a long time) →
>
> Akonadi not operational
> "An error occured during the startup of the Akonadi server ....
> x MySQL server not found
> x Executing the MySQL server failed
> ~ No current MySQL error found
> ~ Akonadi found and usable
> x Akonadi server process not registered, etc.
>
> ... "Make sure you have the MySQL server installed"
> I think so. It has been announced for Mandriva 2009.1.
> "ensure you have the necessary read and execution rights on the
> server executable."
>



Hi, if you install the QtSQL driver for 'QMYSQL' , along with MySql server,
Akonadi will start working normally. MySql server will not take much space,
if u dont already have it installed.


> May I ask you now: I intend to remove Akonadi (in the same way as
> I installed it) in this situation. But removing (with all dependencies)
> could it hurt the Contact or the system ? Please I am waiting for
> your reply before doing anything.


Akonadi dosent  take much space either, and it wont really, i think, affect
the performace of your computer. This to me looks like the easiest solution,
without giving any chance to luck, to hurt your system. :)


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