Monodevelop 2.0 and Ubuntu 8.10

[lordbah]

Where can I find a package to install Monodevelop 2.0 on Ubuntu 8.10? Or must I build it from source?

[argor]

it is in the repo just use synapatic to install it

[lordbah]

it is in the repo just use synapatic to install it

Synaptic only sees version "1.0+dfsg-3 (intrepid)", which I already have installed.

[Bufke]

I don't have 8.10 to test, but maybe

2 alpha at getdeb http://www.getdeb.net/search.php?search_distro_id=9&keywords=monodevelop

Maybe try to install jaunty's package just to see. It may want you to upgrade mono though. http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/monodevelop

PPA's https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=monodevelop

[directhex]

MD2.0 was not stable when 8.10 released

And I have better things to do than backport it

[lordbah]

In the end I decided to just upgrade to 9.04.

So now I have Monodevelop 2.0, according to Synaptic, but almost every choice under every menu is grayed out. Even Help/About.

I guess I'll try completely removing monodevelop and reinstalling it - maybe something is broken with upgrades.

EDIT: No luck from the uninstall/reinstall. I did find that Help/About works while looking at the Welcome page. After I select one of my existing solution files and it loads that up, then Help/About (and everything else) becomes grayed out. The splash screen stays stuck at "Loading Workbench", which I see other people have reported. I started trying the workarounds listed -- Tried to remove the Welcome Page add-in, it throws an exception during removal and the GUI hangs, on restart it is still there; so I disabled the addin, tried to remove it and it hung, restarted and it remained disabled, tried to remove it now and it says "The uninstallation failed!" -- but I can now load a solution and menus still work afterward.

[directhex]

Try removing your ~/.config/.MonoDevelop (I think that's where it stores stuff) and starting it again