Fix Checkgmail

In the latest episode of checkgmail breaking, the dialog box for username/password box comes up over and over. You may get terminal output that says the user name and password cannot be saved.  This also fixes the dreaded "Error: 200 OK" message at login.

Open up a terminal and enter the following:

checkgmail -update

Enter capital Y when it asks "OK to update to new version via 'sudo mv checkgmail /usr/bin/'?(Y/n)>"

Enter your root password at the prompt. Close checkgmail when it opens.

wget http://linuxdeal.com/files/checkgmail.patch

sudo apt-get install patch

sudo patch /usr/bin/checkgmail checkgmail.patch

Should be working now. Enjoy!

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Posted: Jan 22nd, 2013
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