[Evolution-users] Evolution 3.46.1-0ubuntu1 crashing

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2022-12-20 at 15:47 -0500, Dr. John H. Lauterbach wrote:
> Hello Paul.  I sent you a pmail with the terminal output from what I
> thought was a bad install.

Everything was fine actually.  You don't need to start evolution from
the shell prompt.  Just start it from your window manager.  Use the
windows key (or whatever it is on your keyboard) to bring up the heads-
up display and type "evolution", if you see only one entry that's the
one you want.  If you see >1 entry then one of them is the flatpak;
you'll have to figure out which one.

Alternatively you can uninstall evolution (don't uninstall any of the
supporting packages like evolution-data-server-common etc.) from your
system with something like "sudo apt-get remove evolution" so that only
the flatpak version is available.  You can always re-install it if you
want.

Once you have the right one you can add it as a favorite or whatever.

> After rebooting and restoring evolution from one of my other PCs that
> are running 22.10, I find that I am running 3.46.2 (by Flathub.org) .
> Libsoup is still 3.2.0-1

I don't understand what you mean by "restoring evolution from one of my
other PCs", but there's no simple way to find out the version of
libsoup that's running inside the flatpak.  Just looking at the version
installed on your system won't do it.

The idea of a flatpak (or a snap) is that all the libraries it needs
are bundled with it.  It doesn't use the libraries that are installed
on your system.  That's how these things can install newer (or older,
if needed) versions of libraries etc. without disturbing other parts of
the system.

If you are indeed running the Evolution from flatpak then you
definitely have the newest libsoup as well.