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

[Melissa Vandenbrink]

What about support for Solaris? The sight says it's supported , but I've 
only been able to install v 1.0.5/v1.0.6 on solaris 8 and have been having 
problems installing on Solaris 10

On 9/16/05, Wade Berrier <wberrier at novell.com> wrote:
> 
> We do our best to make the installation of mono easy. We support a wide
> number of distros and I'm afraid that some distros are better supported
> than others. Mainly because some older distros don't provide certain
> rpms.
> 
> I have plans to post rpms that mono requires that don't come with the
> distro. It's in the works.
> 
> They will be posted on the website and I'll also create another
> red-carpet channel to handle some rpms deps. This should solve the
> problems discussed here.
> 
> Sorry you've run into troubles. Using the linux installer is a great
> suggestion. But, we're working on it fixing the rpm deps problems.
> 
> Wade
> 
> P.S. The I/O timeouts are due to a bug in red-carpet, not the servers
> being down or unavailable. If you retry the command again it will
> continue downloading.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 16:42 -0600, Kevin Dietz wrote:
> > 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. 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. Ultimately I'd like to see Mono be more
> > configuration tolerant and install all the necessary dependencies its
> > needs. 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.
> >
> > The Mono web site is terribly unhelpful, misleading, and just plain
> > wrong about stuff it tells you.
> >
> > 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." 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.
> >
> > 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? 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.
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I do think Mono has a lot of potential to become a mainstream
> > cross-platform programming platform. I know a lot of people on this
> > mailing list are doing a lot of really good, hard work. I just hate to
> > see that effort wasted by poor and inaccurate setup instructions.
> >
> > - Kevin
> >
> >
> >
> > On Aug 17, 2005, at 3:35 PM, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >> I'm trying to install Mono on Red Hat 9 using Red Carpet, because
> > >> that's what the web site says is the best way to do it.
> > >
> > > RedCarpet is a pretty cool way of updating things, but really, for 
> Mono
> > > I really would suggest building your own. Simplest reason for doing
> > > this
> > > is that you don't get the deps problems!
> > >
> > > TTFN
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
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> the
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> > > Reserves." - Bill Shankly
> > >
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