Time ago I played with Beagle (apt-get install beagle), but after its 0.20 release decided to build it from sources. I don't do apt-get because I'm running mono from svn, yes, I know can have parallel installations but like living in the edge ;-). Compiling takes sometime, allmost all the time because of the dependencies, if you want to enable everything you must compile allmost all. Here's my quick-and-dirty guide for building Beagle 0.20 from sources.

I'm running linux 2.6.12-9-686 from deb package with Ubuntu Breezy. Guided from beagle's wiki-page I began installing. Remember that using another --prefix rather than /usr is a very good idea, I use /opt/beagle/, remember to set $PATH, $LD_CONFIG_PATH and $PKG_CONFIG_PATH while installing the packages,

1. sqlite-2.8.17.tar.gz
2. gmime-2.1.19.tar.gz
3. XFree86 libs, apt-get install libxss-dev
4. evolution-sharp
   • apt-get install evolution-data-server-dev evolution-dev
   • evolution-sharp-0.9.1.tar.gz
5. galago, here you need dbus-sharp... then you need dbus even if you already have it.
   • apt-get instlal libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev
   • dbus-0.60.tar.gz, use --enable-mono --enable-mono-docs while configuring.
     
   • libgalago-0.3.3.tar.gz
   • galago-sharp-0.3.2.tar.gz
6. libexif, apt-get install libexif-dev
7. gsf-sharp
   • apt-get install libgsf-gnome-1-dev libgsf-1-dev
   • gsf-sharp-0.6.tar.gz

Then, beagled, and beagle-search, and done.

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