Genesis-Sync on Ubuntu Hardy Heron

Genesis-Sync is a tool that allows you to sync with any syncml capable server and Evolution.

This is a short explanation on how to get it running on Hardy Heron. You can get the source of Genesis-sync from launchpad.

untar the downloaded file.

In order to get it working you need to patch Genesis-sync 0.2.1 (If you have a higher version I think it might be fixed) with this patch. The patch need to be applied on settings.py simple go in to the extracted folder and enter src folder. the command to apply the patch:

patch -p0 < evolution-python-change.patch

Before we connection you need to get a few dependencies:

apt-get install ConfigObj python-evolution

To install SyncEvolution follow this page

To start Genesis-sync do:

python folder-path/src/genesis.py

This is a very small explanation on how to get it running. If you can’t you can contact me.