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I know, I am just SUCH a bother!! always trying out that stuff that other people don't do! lol Hey I have a Windows Vista Busness Sony VAio Laptop. a) Last year I tried an install of "KDE on windows" on it and it was waay in BETA so it installed but that was about it, and I sent off the reports. b) I just last night tried the KDE on Windows thing and Calligra suite and... It is looking GOOD!! Calligra works. All of the KDE on Windows thing works except Kontact. When I try to enable Akonadi I get an error: "FEDERATED is NOT running". There is a post on the net that QT is to be installed first....but I found that AFTER... ![]() I installed MySQL , the whole thing, including server, and then MS told me that I needed .net, and I installed .net 4. So QT came to the party late! ![]() When I try to get Akonadi running I get the FEDERATED error. MySQL's workbench has a place for picking a "database form" and it was a generic thing, I chose FEDERATED and restarted several times etc. but no joy. There is on the MySQL forums a post from a couple of years ago about "running --federated" which I ASSUME means in terminal. Well, i can "do" terminal in Linux but not Windows... So....if anyone has a clue about the PARTICULAR items to "tick" or "fill in" in the MySQL workbench or... how to put the " --federated" into terminal and WHERE to put it in in the file structure... I would muchly appreciative!! ![]() And I imagine that others trying to run KDE on windows would be so also!! ![]() thanks ahead of time for any help! ![]() woodsmoke |
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Can you please post a screenshot of the error Kontact is generating?
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Thanks muchly for the reply and I apologize for not getting back more quickly.
Here is the screenshot. ![]() Here is the output of the error message:
Like I said in the OP, I don't have access to a terminal on a Vista machine so I'll probably have to rely on the MySQl workbench app or something in Akonadi. I'm fully familiar with Akonadi on an Ubuntu Linux machine it that helps any at all. thanks in advance. woodsmoke woodsmoke |
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Unusually, it seems that the MySQL server default configuration which is shipped by Akonadi is missing (this is Test #5) and could be a key indicator as to why it is failing to start. Can you please check to see if it is present?
It is at $PREFIX/share/config/akonadi/mysql-global.conf on my system here.
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Hi bcooksly
Thank you very much for your reply. I am very familiar with a Linux file structure but am absolutely ignorant about a "Windows" file structure. a) Are you posting in terms of a windows or a linux file structure? Because I have NEVER seen the term: $PREFIX that is STRING PREFIX in Linux....."String" is a "basic" command and I assume others, like in linux where it would be: "$woodsmoke" in terminal. If it is a "windows" file structure then I have no clue. If it is a "windows in WINE" then I can "relate" to that but still have no clue.... so... I really DO NOT KNOW HOW....to get to a "windows" file structure "in WINE" in a "windows" system... So.... and this is a BIG so....as in Needle Pulling Thread..... If you could eludicate as to this then I will ENTHUSIASTICALLY do what you say but I am ignorant of windows file structures and also how to access them.... I realize that there is a "windows terminal" but I never used it except under direction by a geeky guy...so... please expand if you would. The HARDWARE is a Sony Vaio laptop. The original software was full bore Vista Business that was purchased as a package about 5 (five) years antecedent to this post. About a week ago I attempted to install upon the previously mentioned hardware and OS the KDE "stuff"... I ASSUME THAT IT WAS WINE IN REVERSE....but have absolutely no clue because the old woodsmoker is kinda stupid... so please walk me through this step by step if you would ... please? woodsmoke woodsmoke |
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In this case $PREFIX will be the directory you installed Kontact into - likely C:\Program Files\Something...
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Hi thanks for the VERY late reply! it worked.
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Not a problem - i've now marked this as solved.
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