Palmpilot sync problems with both kpilot, jpilot, pilot-sync, ...

[Robert Locke]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 16:01 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Thursday, Aug 4th 2005 at 14:55 -0400, quoth Robert Locke:
> 
> =>On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 14:26 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>> On Thursday, Aug 4th 2005 at 13:08 -0400, quoth Robert Locke:
> =>> 
> =>> =>On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:49 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>> =>> On Thursday, Aug 4th 2005 at 08:24 -0400, quoth Rodolfo Alcázar:
> =>> =>> 
> =>> =>Personally I am just using the "new" pilot-link to perform backups of my
> =>> =>Palm and ignoring the synchronization capabilities with Evolution, that
> =>> =>I used to rely on in FC3.....   And, I'm trying to relax and learn how
> =>> =>to spell P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E..... :-)  Hopefully I'll have full sync'ing
> =>> =>again soon (looks like updates-testing has a new gnome-pilot - hmmmm,
> =>> =>something to play with this weekend???)....
> =>> =>
> =>> 
> =>> I am syncing today. I sent a message out on how to have both version (the 
> =>> old and the new) of pilot-link installed and for your older version of 
> =>> jpilot to also be installed so the old one will work.
> =>
> =>I'm ready to bite....  Where should I hunt down that message that talks
> =>about having both versions installed?  That would just be generally
> =>educational for me....
> =>
> =>My sync'ing (or should I say backing up) with my old Palm V (actually an
> =>IBM WorkPad) has been fine with just pilot-link.  I am most interested
> =>in getting the functionality going back in to Evolution, so jpilot won't
> =>help me much, and backtracking to the old gnome-pilot and evolution is
> =>probably not feasible for me....  I am also looking to transition over
> =>to a Treo shortly since I am beginning to be hit by the "stylus-drift"
> =>on the old WorkPad....
> =>
> =>--Rob
> =>
> 
> 
> This is what I did to work with jpilot. You *may* not need to roll jpilot 
> back but this now works. The --relocate causes there to not be any file 
> collisions.
> 
> >From Jul19:
> 
> As has been discussed on the jpilot list and also posted here:
> 
> pilot-link is broken under FC4. The solution is to go with the pilot-link 
> from FC3. Get the old rpms and install them. If you use jpilot
> 
> rpm -ivh --force --relocate /usr=/opt/jpilot jpilot-0.99.7-2.i386.rpm \
>    pilot-link-0.11.8-8.i386.rpm
> 

Hey, cool.  Guess I didn't see that a few weeks ago, thanks for
re-posting it....

--Rob