[Mono-devel-list] monodoc redhat 8.0 rpms

Peter Moffe pete at yzordderrex.com
Sat May 17 12:05:35 EDT 2003


I'm running Red Hat 9.0, and upgraded Evolution to version 1.2.4.  In
doing so, I had to upgrade gtkhtml.  Below is run-down of the situation
I'm also receiving:

[root at 1r3wx01 root]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
[root at 1r3wx01 root]# rpm -ivh monodoc-0.4-1.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
   1:monodoc                ###########################################
[100%]
[root at 1r3wx01 root]# monodoc
 
** (<unknown>:2887): WARNING **: Failed to load library
libgtkhtml-3.0.so (gtkhtml-3.0): libgtkhtml-3.0.so: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
.
.
. Repeated Error 
 
Unhandled Exception: System.MissingMethodException: A missing method
exception has occurred.
in <0x00046> 06 Gtk.HTML:gtk_html_new ()
in <0x0004a> 00 Gtk.HTML:.ctor ()
in <0x0019b> 00 .Browser:.ctor ()
in <0x00183> 00 .Browser:Main (string[])
 
[root at 1r3wx01 root]# rpm -qa | grep gtkhtml
gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-1.99.14-5
gtkhtml2-2.2.0-5
libgtkhtml1.1-3-1.1.10-0.ximian.3
gtkhtml1.1-1.1.10-0.ximian.3
[root at 1r3wx01 root]#

On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 03:20, Philip Nutzman wrote:
> perhaps someone who has actually built an rpm package can shoot me down,
> but:
> shouldn't the monodoc rpm installation fail (or complain) if certain
> dependencies aren't met?
> the rpm -ivh monodoc  went smoothly ... but when I ran monodoc, there
> was a neverending list of things (should I call them silent
> dependencies?) which kept it from working properly...
> 
> to save people the trouble I ran into (which was thankfully figured out
> tonight):
> if you have a Red Hat 8 (prob also 9) "personal desktop" installation,
> make sure to install additionally the gnome *-devel packages. (this
> might also affects other installation types)
> 
> I also write this here, because there might be a lot of "personal
> desktop" users without gnome development experience, who were excited
> like me and wanted to jump right into gtk# development
> Alright, the GIST:
> Shouldn't the monodoc rpm installation complain if you are missing the
> devel packages? (it didn't for me). Also I had an issue with
> libgtkhtml3... which was also a "silent dependency"
> Anyway, the monodoc application is a real treasure for me as I try to
> learn gtk#
> Thanks!
> Philip 
> 
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Peter Moffe
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