[HOW TO] install Geary on Fedora 22 | Geary is having issues

I am using fedora 22 and I am really fed up with Thunderbird. On Linux there are a few Mail Client alternatives to the Thunderbird email client. But I still did not like.

Until now, Geary is an interesting beast. It looks like a beautiful girl to write an email.

I'm fairly confident that you will like it.

On personally social page, I wrote as above. But the fact it runs unstable. It looks like it need more dependencies packages and I did not know that.

One hour ago, I feel uncomfortable with it. What the fuck! I need to fix it. I go to Geary home page https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary and download source.

Extract it, I read INSTALL memo. Good, exactly the same thing I thought. Afterward I followed this instruction and get the good result. Geary is running stable.

As a habit, I think you will need it. It is a reason to write down.

1. Firstly, building Geary requires Vala 0.22.1 or higher with a full GObject introspection repository, intltool, cmake, desktop-file-validate, and xml2po. Thus you must install vala:

$ sudo yum install vala

2. You also install the rest of the build dependencies for Geary in any version of Fedora by running this command:

$ sudo yum install gobject-introspection-devel intltool cmake desktop-file-utils gnome-doc-utils libcanberra-devel libgee-devel glib2-devel gmime-devel gtk3-devel libnotify-devel sqlite-devel unique3-devel webkitgtk3-devel libsecret-devel libxml2-devel vala-tools gcr-devel

3. Combine
Go to Geary directory, follows:

$./configure$sudu make$sudo make install

By default, Geary will install under /usr/local.  The configure script can customize the prefix directory.  Run ./configure --help for instructions and other installation options. In some case, you will install cmake if any. Please install to continue.

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