[Kroupware] Client installation

[Dick Kniep]

Hi Andreas

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 13:17, Andreas Gungl wrote:
> Hi Dick,
> 
> I' using the Kroupware Client RC2 at work, the output of KAddressBook's info 
> doesn't contain anything about Kroupware. However, to access an LDAP tree, 
> you can really use KAddressBook from a normal KDE 3.1 too.
> Please, try the following:
> 
> 1) Stop KDE if it's running.
> 2) Move your $HOME/.kde directory to a save place.
> 3) Restart KDE.
> 4) Start the KAddressBook application. Set the LDAP server options and look 
> for the toolbar icon.

We're still stuck. we looked in the source, and I think you are right
about the versions, but the search button doesn't show up. So now we
think that maybe we should install openldap on the client aswell. Is
that so? 

> 5) When you can do an LDAP search, compare $HOME/.kde/share/config/kab*
> and $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kabc/* to your saved files to find a difference.
> 6) Restore your $HOME/.kde and make some changes in the kabc configuration 
> if you detected a reason for your problems.
> 
> As an alternative, you can try KAddressBook under a new account to find out, 
> whether LDAP access is okay resp. the toolbar icon is available.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas
> 
> Am Montag, 12. Mai 2003 12:44 schrieb Dick Kniep:
> > We downloaded the Kolab client and compiled kdepim again. The version of
> > KAddressbook displayed in the About box is KDE 3.1 (No mention of
> > Kroupware). But we definetely do NOT have the mentioned button. NONE of
> > the buttons has the tooltip "Lookup addresses in directory".
> >
> > The weird thing is that KMail worked out of the box. We compiled it, and
> > it immediately started correctly. Furthermore the date of KAddressbook
> > is may 8th, so it IS the version we downloaded and compiled.
> >
> > My conclusion is that we don't have the correct version of KAddressbook,
> > and so the downloadversion on the Kolab site is broken (the old
> > version).
> >
> > We also looked at the kde site. pim.kde.org. The version shown there is
> > indeed our version. However, it does NOT contain the mentioned button.
> > The CVS version on the other hand does.
> >
> > Please inform me of the version we have to use.
> 
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