Re: SynCE intallation from scratch

[Mark E. <ma...@mp...>]

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 19:38 +0200, Jan Moritz Meyer wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 23.05.2008, 15:42 +0100 schrieb Mark Ellis:
> > On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 12:15 +0200, Jan Moritz Meyer wrote:
> > > Greeting Everyone,
> > > 
> > > I am stuck with some errors i encountered setting up SynCE, following
> > > the guides on www.synce.org.
> > > Some problems may be related to incompatible packageges from diffrent
> > > releases.
> > > This is why I want to start the SynCE installation from scratch(only
> > > using files from one release this time), before i start asking any
> > > questions about specifc problems. 
> > > To get a plain system...
> > > ...which packages schuould I uninstall ?
> > > ...which folders should I delete ?
> > > 
> > 
> > Did you ever install from source ? If you did it's a bit more
> > complicated, but if you only used packages you can't go far wrong by
> > removing :-
> > 
> > anything with synce in the name
> > anything with rapi2 in the name
> > anything with librra, and python-rra
> > any of dccm, synce-dccm, vdccm, odccm
> > 
> > Mark
> Thank You Mark!
> 
> I will "remove" everything you listed via yum.
> 
> I played around with some of the plugings, the msynctool just to name
> one.
> What aout the hidden folders created by the some of the apps and the
> config saved inside them ? 
> Should I delete them ? 
> If yes, where are they?

The only folder I would recommend just deleting is ~/.synce and only if
you really don't have any partnership information you need.

> Will i find every folder thats to delete by searching for files and
> folders named like what you listed above ?
> 

Don't just delete anything out of your home dir unless you installed
from source.

> Sincerely JM
> 
> P.S.I consider making a litle linux-noobs-guide for setting up SynCE
> when i got this running, anyone interested ?
>