I’ve been using fluxbox for quite some time now and I really like it. It is very light and since I run it on my server I want to keep the footprint as small as possible.

Problem is I fell in love with Gnome Do and rightfully so, as it has quite a bit of functionality. So I installed it just fine. I had some Mono dependency which is quite some files but I can live with that. Then I tired installing the gnome-do-plugins package and to my surprise there is quite a bit of stuff.

Biggest problem is that it depends on Evolution which I can’t run on my server as it tries to start a bunch of services and ports that already are being used. So I looked around for a solution and sure enough people are complaining about this. Most of the answer are something like “Evolution should be installed on gnome anyways” or “We can’t split the gnome-do-plugins package at this time”.

So rather than wait around I cheated. I created a fake libevolution5.0-cil package. It is an empty package with just a README file and some control data that tells the package manager that this is indeed a newer version of the currently available libevolution5.0-cil package. Nice thing about this is that it has no dependencies and gnome-do-plugins “thinks” is the real thing so it doesn’t force you to install Evolution. Of course you should NOT enable any of the Evolution plugins while using Gnome do as this fake library literally does nothing.

If you are going to use it check that the current version offered by your package manager is LESS then this version otherwise it will not work. I bumped it up all the way to version 2 as they are not even at version 1 right now but who knows how often they update version numbers.

If you install this be aware that you will break the functionality of anything that depends on the real library so use at your own risk.
To install download the file and run dpkg as root to install

#dpkg -i libevolution5.0-cil_2.2.2-2_i386.deb

Then install gnome-do-plugins after that. Good luck!

libevolution5.0-cil_2.2.2-2_i386.deb