[Mono-list] About Mono installation in CentOS

[Ivan N. Zlatev]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:42 PM, javierfernandez108
<javierfernandez108 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Roilan Cardoso Sánchez wrote:
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>> Hello everybody
>> I'm trying to install Mono on my CentOS 5 but i coudn't
>> Firstly i try using mono.repo for centos, but when it try to install
>> libgdiplus it throw an dependency error, coudn't find libexif.so.9 and
>> libungif.so.4
>> Then i try with the .bin istalator and the throw the same error but with
>> libgailutil.so.17 and liblitz.so.1
>> I try too, with the CentOS Extras reporsitory and the same but with
>> lifgif.so.4
>> Finally I reinstall my system and from 0 y try with the CentOS GUI
>> installer in extras Mono, it works, but when i try to run an application
>> (GUI app) mono thow error coudn't find gdiplus.dll
>> I really don't know what to do, please can any budy help me
>>
>> regards
>> Roilan
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> I'm having a similar problem on a RH4 x86_64 box. I went to the download
> page
> (http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/download-stable/rhel-4-i386/) and downloaded
> all the RPM's in a zip file, and first attempted to install the
> libgdiplus0-1.9-1.rhel4.novell.i386.rpm
> and it gave me
> error: Failed dependencies:
>   libexif.so.9 is needed by libgdiplus0-1.9-1.rhel4.novell.i386
>   libglib-2.0.so.0 is needed by libgdiplus0-1.9-1.rhel4.novell.i386
>   libjpeg.so.62 is needed by libgdiplus0-1.9-1.rhel4.novell.i386
>   libpng12.so.0 is needed by libgdiplus0-1.9-1.rhel4.novell.i386
>   libtiff.so.3 is needed by libgdiplus0-1.9-1.rhel4.novell.i386
>   libungif.so.4 is needed by libgdiplus0-1.9-1.rhel4.novell.i386
>
> I verified I had a libexif rpm installed and found libexif-0.5.12-5.1.0.2.
> The I searched and found /usr/lib64/libexif.so.9 installed.
>
> Is this an issue x86_64 issue where I cannot use the downloaded rpms
> with this architecture?
>

It seems you are installing 32bit mono packages on a 64bit system and
those packages require 32bit dependencies and not their 64bit
equivalents.

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Kind Regards,
Ivan N. Zlatev