[mono-vb] Running Omron Health Software with Mono

[Rolf Bjarne Kvinge]

Hi,

> Hi!
> 
> The only thing which still forces me to have Windows alongside Linux on
> my laptop is Omron Health Management Software used with Omron
> pedometer. I tried running it with Mono-2.2 but got the following
> errors:
> 
> localhost:/tmp/mono/omron> mono omron.exe
> 
> ** (omron.exe:9449): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from
> /tmp/mono/omron/Omron Health Management Software.exe could not be
> loaded:
>      Assembly:   Microsoft.VisualBasic    (assemblyref_index=1)
>      Version:    7.0.5000.0
>      Public Key: b03f5f7f11d50a3a
> The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed
> in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the
> executing assembly (/tmp/mono/omron/).
> 

You need to install the mono-basic package (it might be named slightly
different depending on which distro you're using).

Rolf