Surprising that no one on this forum could provide guidance. That doesn't happen too often. But I did find the solution on the SuSE Linux Forums (forums.suselinuxsupport.de). BTW, the current SuSE site at Novell.com does not point to this excellent support link and provides no user-driven support of its own, as far as I've been able to find.
There are several posts (at the suselinuxsupport site) complaining that 9.2 doesn't offer the Red Carpet daemon (rcd) in its installation package. This has certainly been my experience with 9.2 Pro. WIthout Red Carpet, getting an installable version of ximian-connector is very difficult. The FTP files at Ximian's part of the Novell site don't offer a version matching my Evolution version (2.0.1 at the time). Everything I pulled down said dependencies requiring 2.1 were missing. But Evolution 2.1 was not among the available downloads! Go figger!
Bottom line: I found a link to
http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirror...ub/redcarpet2/ in one of the posts, which also had other good info. Once I could pull and run the rpm, the rest was easy: subscribe to the ximian-connector channel and run the update. My Evolution now at a working level not available directly from Novell's SuSE site for 9.2 Pro. Red Carpet is in place, as is the connector for linking to an Exchange server.
To say I'm disappointed with Novell would be an understatement. FC is looking better and better!
End of story. 'Til next time ...
-- Jim
