> >I'm running monodevelop successfully on SuSe 9.3. > >1. Forget all this rug stuff, it doesn't work; I fiddled with it for a > >long time. > >2. Remove ALL SuSe's mono packages, this requires removing Beagle and > >Tomboy but you can put them in again later. > >3. Download the packages from http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads into > >a directory > >4. Do a rpm -Uvh * in that directory > >5. On two of five boxes I needed to run "/sbin/ldconfig" before anything > >would work. > >6. Monodevelop now runs! > Thanks for that. I'm not sure what it says about Novell if what you say > is true. Rug is their recommended method after all, so if it doesn't > work, especially on their own distribution (SuSE), they really ought to > be looking at it. Maybe they are.
9.3 is new, as is Monodevelop 0.7; these things will sort themselves out. I've been using rug/red-carpet since Ximian released it, it is an excellent product and solution. > a) What should I uninstall? Do I have to use rug to do it, as I used > rug to install at least some of the packages in the first place? Or > should I use apt, or YaST, since I guess some of the packages were in > the original 9.3 upgrade? rpm -qa | grep mono Remove all those, and the ones that depend on them. > b) Following the link you gave to the 9.3 packages leads me to 30 > separate packages to install, or 5 zip files containing these 30 > packages. Once I've got all these packages, which ones am I supposed to > install and in what order? You probably want all of them although you may not need all the "gapi" ones; and it you don't do ASP/web stuff you don't need mon_mono/xsp. But I'd guess you want all the other ones. > I suppose that I can at least take some consolation from the fact that I > don't appear to be the only one having trouble. It does make you > compare the installation experience with the equivalent for VS, doesn't > it. VS wasn't released last week for a Windows version only about a month old. :) > VS does take a long time to install, and I have had the occasional > problem with it, but nothing like this. And I've never had any trouble > installing the .NET framework. It won't put me off from getting to > grips with mono - but it may mean that I just use it as a runtime > environment and not for development. I'd find that very sad. Ok, I've never used VS. You'd have to pay me a great deal of money to put up with using a M$ product for my day-to-day work. Time is saves it one area it consumes may fold more futzing with myriad 'mystery' problems with useless error messages. > I've been trying to get a full mono 1.1.x installation with monodevelop > now almost since the day 1.1 was released. :( Although I should perhaps > note that the problem has always been with monodevelop. mono itself has > always installed just fine and done exactly what it's supposed to do. > However, I regard a decent IDE as very important. Same, monodevelop is the bugger of the mix. > I know this isn't a > view shared by everyone, but I much prefer to use a good IDE over a text > editor, however sophisticated. Same, an monodevelop is quite nice; certainly worth the wrestling match to get it to run. > Hopefully this doesn't sound overcritical. Mono is important to me and > I want it to succeed. I recognise that there may be issues with my > particular installation even though it is a brand new SuSE 9.3 install > (via upgrade from 9.2), so there shouldn't be that many problems, should > there? I never upgrade. Make /home a separate partition and just reinstall the new distribution. I belong to a largish LUG and just about everyone has given up on upgrading; for a workstation the convenience of upgrading is rarely worth the potential flakiness (especially if you've used third party packages or ever once done an rpm --force).
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