[Mono-list] Installation woes

[Carl Olsen]

SuSE 9.1 Pro comes with Mono .30 or something like that.  You have to
download a lot of stuff from the Mono web site to get it up to version 1.0.
There is a set of instructions for SuSE 9.1 at
http://www.gotmono.net/documentation/mono-suse-howto.html.  SuSE 9.2 Pro
comes with version 1.0 and it's much easier to install.  I don't remember
installing anything other than adding some configuration settings to
httpd.conf.  I did try to install some of the version 1.1 stuff and ended up
breaking everything, so I reinstalled SuSE 9.2 Pro and everything works just
fine again (with the 1.0 version of Mono).  If you're like me (I don't know
what I'm doing on a Linux box), then SuSE 9.2 Pro is a good choice.

I'm primarily a Windows IIS programmer, but I couldn't resist playing around
the Mono.  We run a lot of Linux web servers where I work and I get forced
to write quite a lot of PHP and MySQL programming.  I'd love to get them to
switch to Mono.  I've had to learn a lot of PHP and I'd just as soon use the
same programming language on both platforms.

Carl
http://www.carl-olsen.com/ (this one runs Mono 1.0 on SuSE 9.2 Pro with
Apache 2)
http://www.carlswebs.com/ (this one runs .NET 1.1 on Windows 2003 with IIS)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mono-list-admin@lists.ximian.com [mailto:mono-list-
> admin@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Nik Derewianka
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 6:27 PM
> To: mono-list@lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Installation woes
> 
> Carl Olsen wrote:
> 
> >I'm running Mono on SuSE 9.2 Professional.  You should not have to
> download
> >anything from the go-mono web site.  All the packages you need are on the
> >SuSE 9.2 Professional disks.  If I were you, I'd simply reinstall
> >everything.  The only thing you need to configure is Apache.
> >
> >
> Any idea if the same applies to SLES 9 ??  Supposedly this has mono as
> part of it, but as far as i can tell it doesnt.  Downloaded the 1.0.5
> packages and mono launches only to complain about ICU not being
> installed (is this correct ?? or do most systems come with the icu stuff
> pre-installed ? or should it be in mono-core or mono-devel packages ??)
> 
> Regards,
> Nik
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