[Mono-list] Working with GTK#

Duncan Mak duncan@ximian.com
Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:01:22 -0400


Hello Andy,

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 07:01, Andy Walker wrote:
> I am new to Linux, and am trying to get GTK# running on Mandrake 9.2.=20

We don't really support Mandrake 9.2 because it's so new. We do support
Mandrake 9.1, and it's very possible that packages for Mandrake 9.1 will
work on 9.2.

> Mono 0.28 installed and working fine, but when I try to install the
> RPM I get messages such as:
>=20
> =B4libgnomecanvas >=3D2.2 not available=A1 or =B4libglade2 >=3D 2.2 not
> available=A1 =20

A lot of people assume that RPMs will work across different
distributions. This is really quite wrong. The reason why you're seeing
these messages is because Mandrake doesn't provide packages with the
names 'libgnomecanvas' or 'libglade'. The Mandrake equivalent names are
'libglade2.0_0' and 'libgnomecanvas2_0'.

If you use the Mandrake specific packages in
http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/release/mandrake-91-i586, you
shouldn't seen these errors.

> is there a single RPM that installs the whole of GNOME, when I look at
> the download site there are loads of single RPM=FFs for different parts
> of GNOME, but not a single installation.  Sorry for any dumb stuff in
> the above

If you use Red Carpet, it'll download all the dependencies with you.
Mandrake also ships with its own package management tool that'll do
something similar.

> Also any simple IDE=FFs for C# development on Linux ?

I know some people like Anjuta a lot.

Duncan.