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Went ahead and did the dist-upgrade, all I had to install was gnome and evolution, so that wasn't so bad.

--glenn

I wish they would get the train wreck that dist-upgrade is right now fixed. It wants to remove gnome,and evolution just to name a few. I guess I could go ahead to do dist-upgrade and reinstall what it removes, but that sounds like a pain in the butt.

--glenn

So how do you install it? apt install firefox won't do it.

--glenn

You shouldn't use foreign repositories, eventually you will break Debian.

--glenn

It looks like the issue is resolved, apt dist-upgrade looks sane again.

--glenn

Be careful, I don't know what's going on but apt dist-upgrade wants to remove Gnome and Nautilus and a bunch of other stuff. I will wait and see if it gets corrected before doing any upgrading.

Just saying be careful out there!

--glenn

I'm running Debian testing on an HP Envy x360 15-fh0xxx laptop with an amd gpu and a Realtek RTL8852CE wireless adapter. Everything worked from the first install except the sound. The audio chip is not fully supported by the kernel.

Good luck,
--glenn

Hi,

I'm running Debian testing on an HP Envy x360 15-fh0xxx laptop with an amd gpu and a Realtek RTL8852CE wireless adapter. Everything worked from the first install except the sound. I have headphones only as my audio chip is not fully supported by the kernel.

Good luck,
--glenn

Apt listed several old kernels that could be removed with apt autoremove.

--glenn

I'll give the reboot a go.

That did the trick.

Thanks,
--glenn

I removed the evolution folders in .cache .config and .local Than did apt purge evolution and evolution-data-server. Then did apt install evolution and typed evolution in the cli. It remembered the accounts and address book, and it's still read only. I'm not using a contacts book so there's nothing ...

Sorry it took so long. I changed my email and was unable to get the activation email from the forum.

Thanks,--glenn

When I set up evolution I let it do all of the configuring. Supposedly the data is in .config/share/evolution but I'll be damned if I can find the address book file. I have scrounged up an SQLite GUI app to change it from read only if I could just find it.

Thanks,
--glenn

Ok, here it is ;) glenn@LinuxBox:~$ ls -la $address-book total 1508 drwx------ 33 glenn 4096 Feb 25 14:09 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root 4096 Jan 23 12:52 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 glenn 24 Feb 17 2023 .aspell.en.prepl -rw-r--r-- 1 glenn 22 Feb 17 2023 .aspell.en.pws -rw------- 1 glenn 45686 Feb 25 14:09 .bash_history -...

Greetings folks,

The address book in Evolution 3.50.3-1 is read only.

Any clues?

Thanks,
--glenn

You can edit the original post and add [Solved] to the title.

--glenn

I use Gnome, but it takes a little customization to be useable. Gnome-shell-extensions application menu and dash-to-dock.

--glenn

If you do a dist-upgrade it will tell you what it's going to do and you can always say no if it's going to remove packages.

--glenn

Greetings folks,

Running testing on an HP Envy x360 15-hf0xxx laptop. Evolution 3.50.3-1 occasionally loses the address book.

Any clues?

Thanks,
--glenn

Greetings folks, I am running Debian testing, on an HP Envy x360 15-fh0xxx laptop. I am having a problem with Evolution 3.50.3-1 when I click on the inbox I am getting an error. attempt to write a readonly database. I have done chmod +rw to everything I could find in the .config/evolution/mail direc...