Re: mailing list and Evolution /Email client and: Guix compared with Trisquel/Guix

[Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>]

Hello,

thanks for the answer.

I installed Guix as my system, not on any other distro.

I wanted to install "Thunderbird", but that was not possible, than I 
tried to install "Evolution", but that didn´t work because I didn´t know 
that I have also to install "evolution-dataserver" (thanks to Your 
reply), later after hours of searching I found out, that in GNU Guix 
"Thunderbird" has a different name "Icedove" and I was able to install 
"Icedove". So at the moment I don´t need "Evolution". Icedove works fine 
at the moment.


What`s the difference to install GNU Guix as a system or install 
Trisquel and Guix on top of it? What is the advantage of both possibilities?

I installed Guix as my System because if I had installed Trisquel I 
would have older software. And to add Guix on top of Trisquel seemed to 
me not so beneficiary and may be leading to inconsistency. To be on the 
save side I installed Guix as my System in order to run smoothly.

Chloris


Am 12.02.22 um 11:45 schrieb David Lecompte:
> Le dimanche 06 février 2022 à 14:17 +0000, Gottfried a écrit :
>>   Hello,
>>
>> I am new at GNU Guix and want to ask about the mailing list.
>>
> Hello, and welcome. You may want to say whether you are using Guix
> system or on a foreign distro. I am using Guix on Trisquel and on
> Debian.
>
>> Can I enter the mailing list and look at the topics there in order to
>> learn from others? How I can do that?
>> Or can I only send my questions to the mailing list in order to get
>> answers?
>>
> You can read, ask questions for help and answer other people's question
> if you know a solution to their problem.
>
>> I wanted to install evolution, hoping that I can use an email client
>> in
>> a graphical way. Before finisting the installation there was a
>> message:
>>
>> "The name org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Sources5 was not provided by
>> any .service files.
>>
>> Does this mean I can´t install evolution?
> Did you ask to install the evolution and evolution-dataserver?
>
> I tried installing Evolution from Guix a while ago, I had some kind of
> errors and since Evolution from Trisquel and Debian are working fine, I
> did not try more.
>
> If you are using Guix on Debian or Trisquel, I can try installing
> evolution from Guix again in order to compare with you.
>
> David.
>