Installation

The following packages should be installed:

• multisync-tools
• opensync-plugin-evolution
• opensync-plugin-syncml
• multisync0.90

Use System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager to grab those, or for terminal users:

sudo aptitude install multisync-tools opensync-plugin-evolution opensync-plugin-syncml multisync0.90

Check your installation

To test if everything went ok type:

msynctool --listplugins

You should get:

Available options:
syncml-http-server
syncml-obex-client
evo2-sync

Configuration

Group setup

Opensync is complicated. It requires you to define groups first; groups basically pair a device with an application. So the first thing to do is to create a group:

msynctool --addgroup nokia-evo

Next we need to add 2 members to our group, one for Evolution (using the evo2-sync plugin) and one for your phone (which uses the obex plugin).

msynctool --addmember nokia-evo evo2-sync
msynctool --addmember nokia-evo syncml-obex-client

Now, you will need to set up the actually applications.

Configuring

Remember I said it was complicated? Well, the next step is to configure group members. The Evolution side doesn't need configuring, but you need to have run evolution successfully once as the user.

The phone does need configuring, so run:

export EDITOR=gedit && msynctool --configure nokia-evo 2

The 2 at the end of the line indicates you're configuring the second member of the group. Once you run that, the text editor will be launched. This is XML, and it will scare you, but if you figure out how the file works, change the values that are there to:

• identifier: PC Suite
• wbxml: 1
• version:
• usestringtable: 1

If you're using a USB cable:

• type 5

If you're using Bluetooth, fill out:

• bluetooth_address: use the bluetooth applet or run hcitool scan and put the address (a MAC, like 00:10:f3:14:4f:50) there.

• bluetooth_channel: use sdptool browse and find the channel which the SyncML Server listens on.

Syncing

Make sure the configuration has been updated using the command below:

msynctool --showgroup nokia-evo

If you encounter problems updating the configuration, try using a different editor (e.g. vi instead of gedit). That should be everything in terms of installing and configuration. Time to try to sync your phone. To do this type:

msynctool --sync nokia-evo

Alternatively you can start multisync0.90 graphical tool and do the syncing there. If you did everything right, it should output a lot of noisy stuff and the contacts should be synchronized. If not.. file a bug!

Related forums thread is: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=145289