[Mono-list] Getting started

[Thomas R. Corbin]

On Tuesday May 04, 2004 08:51 am, Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 05:45, abhishek srivastava wrote:
> <snip/>
>
> > I have downloaded all the rpms. Is there any document giving me the steps
> > of installing mono?
>
> Generally, the recommendation is to use Ximian Red Carpet, but manual
> RPM installation is fairly straightforward.

	I am using Red Carpet, and it's great.   The only issue I have is that some 
dll's don't seem to be included and mono develop isn't included, and I can't 
seem to build it.

	I'm hoping that the upcoming releases will have more of the dll's, and that 
I'll be able to build mono develop.

>
> > Sorry if this repeated question annoys you. Please give me the steps of
> > installation. I have dowloaded the rpms
> >
> > cairo-0.1.17-0.ximian.6.1.i386.rpm
> > mod_mono-0.7-0.ximian.6.0.i386.rpm
> > cairo-devel-0.1.17-0.ximian.6.1.i386.rpm    
> > mono-0.31-1.ximian.6.0.i386.rpm gtk-sharp-0.17-0.ximian.6.0.i386.rpm
> > mono-devel-0.31-1.ximian.6.0.i386.rpm
> > gtk-sharp-gapi-0.17-0.ximian.6.0.i386.rpm
> > monodoc-0.11-0.ximian.6.0.i386.rpm
> > icu-2.6.1-1.ximian.6.3.i386.rpm
> > perl-XML-LibXML-1.54-1.ximian.6.1.i386.rpm
> > libgdiplus-0.2-0.ximian.6.0.i386.rpm
> > perl-XML-LibXML-Common-0.13-1.ximian.6.1.i386.rpm
> > libgdiplus-devel-0.2-0.ximian.6.0.i386.rpm
> > perl-XML-NamespaceSupport-1.08-1.ximian.6.1.i386.rpm
> > libicu26-2.6.1-1.ximian.6.3.i386.rpm
> > perl-XML-NodeFilter-0.01-1.ximian.6.1.i386.rpm
> > libicu-devel-2.6.1-1.ximian.6.3.i386.rpm
> > perl-XML-SAX-0.12-1.ximian.6.1.i386.rpm
> > libpixman-0.1.0-1.ximian.6.2.i386.rpm       
> > xsp-0.9-0.ximian.6.0.i386.rpm libpixman-devel-0.1.0-1.ximian.6.2.i386.rpm
>
> The short answer is that you don't worry about the install order.  Let
> RPM worry about that. :-)
>
> In principal, you should be able to do this:
>
> 	$ rpm -ivh *.rpm
>
> In practice, you might not be able to, as you might be missing required
> packages.  For example, when I did this with the beta 1 take-3 packages,
> RPM gave me errors for gtk-sharp-gapi, as I was missing a bunch of
> perl-XML-* packages (which I see you have, but I didn't).  I wasn't
> interested in installing all those packages, which brings us to an
> alternative setup:
>
> 	# Get an editable list of all the RPMs
> 	$ ls -1 *.rpm > rpms.txt
> 	# edit rpms.txt to include only the RPMs that are easily
> 	# installable
> 	$ rpm -ivh `cat rpms.txt`
>
> The backtick (`) operator, not to be confused with a normal single quote
> (it's the key to the left of `1'), executes the command within the
> backticks, and substitutes the command's standard output in-place.  This
> allows us to easily trim down the set of packages to install, so that
> you minimize the extra packages you require.
>
> Some of the required packages aren't part of mono.  For example,
> glib2-devel may be required for some of the packages.  You'll have to
> manually install such external dependencies.
>
> If the RPMs you downloaded are for you distribution, that should be it.
> Edit "rpms.txt" to include the packages you want, use `rpm -i', and
> you're done.
>
> If the RPMs aren't for your distribution, it may be impossible or you
> may need to do more work.  (For example, I installed the Red Hat 9 RPMs
> on Fedora Core 2 Test 2, and they weren't a complete match.)  `rpm
> --nodeps' can be your friend.  (FC2T2 has a "gtkhtml3" package
> installed, but gtk-sharp wanted "gtkhtml3.0", even though they appear to
> be the same.  I just installed gtk-sharp with --nodeps to permit
> installation.)
>
>  - Jon
>
>
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