PIM (Personal Information manager) needed

Forum: Apps
Topic: PIM (Personal Information manager) needed
started by: speaker

Posted by speaker on Jan. 27 2004,20:42

Anyone using a PIM ? I need a good contact manager app so I can wipe Windows off my wifes PC- see wants to pay for ACT or something similar?
I say Evolution does not run on Debian :-(

Darrell

Posted by Del on Jan. 28 2004,05:03

Evolution works fine, it just requires a lot of support debs (21Mb download, 62Mb installed)

If the size doesn't bother you, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and make sure it's set to 'stable'. Then run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get install evolution'. It'll tell you the 52 packages it wants to install, you hit Y, and it'll install it.

Posted by hasty on Jan. 28 2004,22:34

Sounds awfully bloated for DSL

Anything small and fast just to keep adresses and phone numbers with a quick find?

Sort of quick card index.

Posted by speaker on Jan. 28 2004,23:22

I agree hasty- but I can't find anything close to use- Del her is my apt source.list
deb < http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ > stable main contrib
deb < http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ > stable main non-free contrib
deb < http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ > stable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src < http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ > stable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb < http://www.modularity.org/knoppix > ./
#deb < http://marillat.free.fr/ > testing main

What do I need to change to have synaptic satisfy dependcies to install Evolution?
Looks of error on libgykhtml dependecies- and several others- I thought apt would solve these?

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 29 2004,03:00

Try Blackbook. There are *.deb packages for it, and it is probably apt-gettable.

The package size in the Debian pool is listed at 74KB.

Good Luck.

Posted by Del on Jan. 29 2004,07:01

Speaker,
Your sources.list file should work just fine. Make sure you've run dpkg-restore, and apt-get update. Then it should work to apt-get install evolution. It's huge though...

I don't have any experience with anything other than Evolution myself, so I can't be of much help. You could try looking for a web-based groupware (something like < http://phorecast.org/ > ). You could install php and mysql to DSL with MonkeyD, and run it locally. Or, you could install it on a web account, and have access to it wherever you go. Quick n Dirty solution, just use Yahoo Mail's address book? (yuck, I'm sorry I even thought that... *feels dirty*)

Posted by hasty on Jan. 29 2004,09:34

Sourceforge >Blackbook is no longer developed or maintained. The coding style is not compatible with the newer GCCs and the author is not willing to fix it.

Posted by speaker on Jan. 29 2004,19:32

Del-- I got Evolution to run- it's good- yes bloated- and on an older system- not as fast as it needs to be. I like the suggestion of running PHP and MSQL with the server locally. IF I get the time I may add these to by spare box ( an old P100) I want to convert to a file server and store my MP3's

Thanks

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 30 2004,01:51

Blackbook may still work even though it is no longer being maintained. If you can find a *.deb (already compiled executable i386 package) or if you can find it in the stable sources list, then you can probably use the program.

I know that it is still part of the Debian pool.

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 30 2004,05:00

I just tried blackbook. It works fine on DSL and is very simple and fast GTK-based contact manager. No additional downloads for dependencies are required.

Here is how I installed it:

Download and save the blackbook_3-4_i386.deb package from the debian website. The file is 74KB in size.

< http://ftp.debian.org/debian....386.deb >

Make sure that you have already run the dpkg-restore script. Then open up a terminal shell and type:

sudo su
dpkg -i blackbook_3-4_i386.deb
exit

You can then run blackbook by typing "blackbook" from a shell prompt.

Good Luck.

Posted by hasty on Jan. 30 2004,17:40

Nice one

Off to try it.

Posted by Grim on Mar. 18 2004,06:00

< hierarchical notebook(HNB) > is a curses program to structure many kinds of data in one place, for example addresses, to-do lists, ideas, book reviews or to store snippets of brainstorming. Writing structured documents and speech outlines.

The default format is XML but hnb can also export to ASCII and HTML. External programs may be used for more advanced conversions of the XML data.

* 172K
* curses-based
* check-box trees with percentages and priorities
* searching
* command-line interface
* no limit on nesting depth (well the display of a 10 levels deep nested node gets kind of eeky)
* in-line editing/single pane
* Executing external commands for http:// URLs and email addresses
* Spell-checking by using ispell or Aspell
* autosave

export filters

* ASCII
* OPML
* HTML (both using unordered lists, and CSS22)
* postscript
* native XML format
* general XML (when working as XML editor)

import filters

* ASCII
* OPML
* native XML format
* general XML (when working as XML editor)