[Mono-list] Errors installing gtk-sharp-gapi

[Shawn Vose]

I installed mono for Suse Professional 92. without a hitch. I did have a 
problem meeting the dependencies for the perl-XML-stuff. Anyone know the 
answer to that one? I cant seem to find the offending packages. Do I 
need to install them from cpan?

I think that perl-XML dep. issue is the reason my monodevelop blows up 
everytime I create a project.

Good news vi still works. ;-)


Paul wrote:

>Hi,
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>>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.  
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>I've said this quite a lot and so have had this in quite wide
>circulation
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>http://www.all-the-johnsons.co.uk/mono - I still don't know why it isn't
>linked to the main mono site as I get a heck of a lot of traffic!
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>>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.  
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>Yes with respects to the distro, but if compiled from source, neither
>make a fig of difference
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>>Ultimately I'd like to see Mono be more 
>>configuration tolerant and install all the necessary dependencies its 
>>needs.
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>Something like yum for mono would be useful. Hold on, we have that...
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>>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.
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>I made a start on the unofficial FAQ - see the URL above.
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>>The Mono web site is terribly unhelpful, misleading, and just plain 
>>wrong about stuff it tells you.
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>No it's not. I've found quite a lot of stuff of use on there.
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>>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."  
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>Personally, I'd move distro. RedCarpet is a very good way to reimplement
>up2date, but it's not really that much more (IMHO)
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>>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.
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>From memory (and this is going back a bit), you select the distro, that
>takes you to a live downloader and you take it from there. Isn't the
>alternative something like 3 rpms?
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>>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?  
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>My opinion is just that - an opinion. Having built mono dozens of times
>now on different distros and architectures (well, helped on the
>different architectures), there really isn't that much of bind building
>from source any more. RedCarpet (again from memory) is very good at
>sorting dependencies.
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>>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.
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>They should be resolvable via RedCarpet. Which channels are you
>subscribed to?
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>>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).
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>While building MonoDevelop is on a different list, I'll be very
>interested to know what dependency issues you're encountering.
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>>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.
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>http://www.monodevelop.com/tutorials/package_install.aspx
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>Binaries should be on go-mono.com which redirects to the main site which
>doesn't look to have a RH9 binary for monodevelop.
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>>I just hate to 
>>see that effort wasted by poor and inaccurate setup instructions.
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>It is somewhat annoying.
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>I would enter a bugzilla report (bugzilla.ximian.com) for a RH9 build of
>MonoDevelop.
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>Sorry to hear you're having problems. Post here the exact problems
>you're seeing and you'll find answers very quickly.
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>TTFN
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>Paul
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