[Mono-list] Re: [Mono-devel-list] How hard is it to install Mono?

Iain McCoy iain@mccoy.id.au
Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:20:54 +1000


On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 04:48, Stacey Abshire wrote:
> Hello Duncan...
> 
> It is interesting that you bring this up...  I have been following the progress
> of mono for some time now, and I am getting ready to setup a box for doing
> development with it.  I am planning on using RedHat 9, and so I downloaded the
> mono-all.zip...  hoping in it would be a script to install the packages...  no
> luck.  So I guess when I sit down and do this, I am going to have to go through
> all of the packages by hand, or install Red Carpet (which i care very little
> for) and use it.  
Stacey, rpm -Uvh *.rpm is the incantation you want. Run it in a folder
which you have unzipped mono-all.zip into.

Duncan, this particular piece of advice has been given an awful lot of
times. Perhaps it should be prominently displayed alongside the
mono-all.zip link?
-- 
Iain McCoy <iain@mccoy.id.au>