mattisking
December 16th, 2004, 08:18 AM
Well, I'm still pretty much a Linux newbie though I've come a decent ways in the past couple of months. Since switching from Fedora Core 2 (and testing 3) to Ubuntu I've been very happy and even more so since moving to Hoary.
Recently the Hoary Mono distribution switched from 1.0.2 to 1.0.4 but only some of the packages. Certain packages like mono-assemblies-base haven't been updated so movingto 1.0.4 isn't possible yet through Synaptic though if you're not paying attention (and using apt-get) you may accidentally remove mono in the process of thinking you are upgrading.
Anyway, having tired of waiting for this to be fixed I set about trying to build not only Mono, but also all the additional 'sharp' packages that are requirements to getting applications like MonoDevelop and Blam running. After quite a few evenings of trying (with a slight delay while the gnome-menus broke) I finally got everything including Monodevelop built and running.
I highly recommend you others that don't want to wait for the packages and aren't using mission critical machines try out 1.1.3 instead of the latest 1.0.5 as the build/install process is far simpler. Still, you have to get quite a bit more than just mono going to get MonoDevelop running. I've been about to completely lose my temper over it a couple times now.
Anyway, yay. Now give me my cookie!
Recently the Hoary Mono distribution switched from 1.0.2 to 1.0.4 but only some of the packages. Certain packages like mono-assemblies-base haven't been updated so movingto 1.0.4 isn't possible yet through Synaptic though if you're not paying attention (and using apt-get) you may accidentally remove mono in the process of thinking you are upgrading.
Anyway, having tired of waiting for this to be fixed I set about trying to build not only Mono, but also all the additional 'sharp' packages that are requirements to getting applications like MonoDevelop and Blam running. After quite a few evenings of trying (with a slight delay while the gnome-menus broke) I finally got everything including Monodevelop built and running.
I highly recommend you others that don't want to wait for the packages and aren't using mission critical machines try out 1.1.3 instead of the latest 1.0.5 as the build/install process is far simpler. Still, you have to get quite a bit more than just mono going to get MonoDevelop running. I've been about to completely lose my temper over it a couple times now.
Anyway, yay. Now give me my cookie!