Ronnie Tucker

*sob*

I’m have no luck at all this week end.

First was my KDE4 debacle and now an argument with Google Calendar!

I read a nice tutorial which was about getting Google Calendar working in Thunderbird.

‘That’d be handy’, says I.

Downloads the Lightning add-on for Thunderbird, which gives it a built in calendar, then downloaded the Provider add-on which allows Lightning to read and write to a Google calendar.

Installed Lightning first then Provider. Fine. Now to configure Provider. Gives it the Private XML URL and a calendar name and so on, click ‘Next’…

Nothing.

That’s odd.

*scratches head*

After a bit of detective work it seems that there’s a conflict between Lightning and Thunderbird due to Thunderbird having installed from the Gutsy repo’s and Lightning having come from the Mozilla site. Ah crap!

Time for Plan B: get Lightning from the Gutsy repo too!

Ah HA! See? I’m a smart cookie me…

Not so. The Lightning in the repo’s is v0.5. The Provider add-on needs v0.7 (the one on the Mozilla site).

Crap, crap and thrice CRAP.

I give up. No more Linux h4×0r1ng this weekend, screw it…