[plug] Problems with kpilot

[Phillip Steege]

On Friday 23 February 2001 13:08, Christian wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:05:30PM +1000, Phillip Steege wrote:
> > I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to get my PalmPilot connected up to
> > my mdk7.2 distro.
> > I tried using kpilot and am having problems with the compile.
>
> Have you perhaps tried the pre-compiled package? (Assuming the distro
> provides one.)  Might be easier.

I could not find a "pre-compiled" package for mdk7.2 distro, but then I 
haven't tried all sources yet.  I'll keep looking.
>
>
> My guess (and I don't use QT/KDE/kpilot at all so this is just a stab in
> the dark) is that you might the dev (or "devel", whatever) package for qt1
> which seems to be what kpilot is looking for.  Although you have the QT2
> header files ("devel" package), perhaps kpilot requires QT1?
>
> Since jpilot uses the pilot-link tools to do the transfer then the
> problem most likely lies with that.  Make sure you've got pilot-link
> installed.  I think kpilot uses pilot-link also so you'll probably have
> the same trouble with that.  You might want to test whether you can sync
> at all using pilot-xfer separate:
>
> pilot-xfer -b <some_backup_dir>
>
> where <some_backup_dir> is where you want the files from your palm to be
> backed up to.
>

I will give that a try, thanks.

What package do you use for your Palm Pilot?

Regards,
Phil