On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 10:26 -0400, Melissa Vandenbrink wrote: > What about support for Solaris? The sight says it's supported , but > I've only been able to install v 1.0.5/v1.0.6 on solaris 8 and have > been having problems installing on Solaris 10
Hi Melissa, I'm not sure about mono Solaris; don't have any experience there. Anyone who can answer here? Wade > > On 9/16/05, Wade Berrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We do our best to make the installation of mono easy. We > support a wide > number of distros and I'm afraid that some distros are better > supported > than others. Mainly because some older distros don't provide > certain > rpms. > > I have plans to post rpms that mono requires that don't come > with the > distro. It's in the works. > > They will be posted on the website and I'll also create > another > red-carpet channel to handle some rpms deps. This should > solve the > problems discussed here. > > Sorry you've run into troubles. Using the linux installer is > a great > suggestion. But, we're working on it fixing the rpm deps > problems. > > Wade > > P.S. The I/O timeouts are due to a bug in red-carpet, not the > servers > being down or unavailable. If you retry the command again it > will > continue downloading. > > > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 16:42 -0600, Kevin Dietz wrote: > > OK, here is my feedback to the Mono team regarding my > installation > > experiences. I hope it doesn't sound too complaining or > preachy. The > > bottom line is I hope the Mono team will really improve the > > installation instructions. I think it is going to be > important to the > > adoption of Mono for people to be able to get it up and > running, > > regardless of their distro or, for example, which freakin' > version of > > glibc they have installed. Ultimately I'd like to see Mono > be more > > configuration tolerant and install all the necessary > dependencies its > > needs. At the very least, the instructions should be much > more helpful > > than they are about exactly what the dependencies are, and > where to get > > them. > > > > The Mono web site is terribly unhelpful, misleading, and > just plain > > wrong about stuff it tells you. > > > > Let's take this example here. The very first sentence of > the RedHat 9 > > installation page says "The best way to install Mono on your > system is > > to use Novell's Red Carpet. If you do not already have Red > Carpet, you > > can download it." The link to download Red Carpet is not > helpful at > > all. It doesn't tell you which files you need, or what > order you need > > to install them. My experience has been that installing Red > Carpet was > > just as difficult as installing Mono without Red Carpet. > > > > But I wonder if your opinion of not using Red Carpet is the > majority > > opinion on this site. If it is the majority opinion, then > why does the > > Mono web site continue to recommend using Red Carpet? And > once you > > install Red Carpet, it still doesn't work, because it > doesn't give you > > the perl-XML-* stuff that gtk-sharp-gapi needs, and doesn't > tell you > > where to get it from. > > > > Now you say that compiling from source is better, because > that removes > > the dependency issues. That has not been my experience at > all. I have > > tried to compile from source, and I still have dependency > problems > > (this is especially true for me when I try to compile > MonoDevelop, > > which is a different mailing list, I know). > > > > Speaking of MonoDevelop, their web site suffers from similar > > inaccuracies They say *not* to compile from source unless > you > > absolutely have to, and even go on to say that the Mono > project web > > site contains pre-built binaries!!! Hah. If that's true, I > sure > > haven't found them. > > > > I do think Mono has a lot of potential to become a > mainstream > > cross-platform programming platform. I know a lot of people > on this > > mailing list are doing a lot of really good, hard work I > just hate to > > see that effort wasted by poor and inaccurate setup > instructions. > > > > - Kevin > > > > > > > > On Aug 17, 2005, at 3:35 PM, Paul F. Johnson wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > >> I'm trying to install Mono on Red Hat 9 using Red Carpet, > because > > >> that's what the web site says is the best way to do it. > > > > > > RedCarpet is a pretty cool way of updating things, but > really, for Mono > > > I really would suggest building your own Simplest reason > for doing > > > this > > > is that you don't get the deps problems! > > > > > > TTFN > > > > > > Paul > > > > > > -- > > > "A lot of football success is in the mind. You must > believe you are the > > > best and then make sure that you are. In my time at > Liverpool we always > > > said we had the best two teams on Merseyside, Liverpool > and Liverpool > > > Reserves." - Bill Shankly > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
