Ubuntu – How to sync the contacts’ information in Empathy with Evolution address book

I couldn't tell you if that is indeed the problem, as I don't own a palm device, but I can confirm by looking at evolution's build log that that flag was not passed. http://paste.ubuntu.com/512047/

If you'd like to try building evolution with that flag, here are some steps.

apt-get source evolution # Download the evolution source package
sudo apt-get build-dep evolution # Install all of evolution's build dependencies
sudo apt-get install devscripts # Tools for working with Debian packages
sudo apt-get install libgnome-pilot2-dev # Extra build dependency need for the "--with-pilot-conduits" flag. 

Next, you want to edit the debian/rules file. Find the section that looks like:

DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS += \
    --with-openldap \
    --enable-nls \
    --disable-scrollkeeper \
    --disable-pilot-conduits \
    --with-krb5=/usr \
    --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
    --enable-plugins=experimental \
    --enable-python \
    --disable-pst-import \
    --disable-image-inline \
    --disable-contacts-map

And replace the --disable-pilot-conduits \ flag with --enable-pilot-conduits \

You'll probably want to bump the version number in debian/changelog as well. You can do that by hand, or run something like dch -v 2.30.3-1ubuntu6+pilot-build -m "Enable pilot-conduits"

Next, the line debian/tmp/usr/share/gnome-pilot must be added to the debian/evolution-common.install file and debian/tmp/usr/lib/evolution/2.30/conduits/*.so must be added to debian/evolution.install

Then you can build the package by running debuild from inside the evolution-2.30.3 directory. Finally, install the resulting debs.

There is nothing which is easy, basically what you must do is install the latest version of libbarry opensync (0.4x) opensync-barry and opensync-eds (evolution data services) then you can use the command line to make a configuration for your blackberry adding in the id of the phone which you can grab using barry-utils.

Then you use the command line to make a sync between the two.

Now I must warn you that the likelyhood of loosing data is very high, blackberries and evolution are not nice PIMs and aren't standardised.

Your other option is to use the ubuntu one phone syncing service which apparently works quite well. https://one.ubuntu.com/mobile/ but that costs money.