[MonoDevelop] Problem making MonoDevelop

John Luke jluke@users.sourceforge.net
Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:38:54 -0500


On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 08:37 +1100, John BouAntoun wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Every time i restart my machine and do a make run in monodevelop (i.e.
> make run in a new console), I get the following error message:
> 
> Cannot find mozilla installation directory. Please set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME
> to your mozilla directory
> 
> Which i fix with
> 
> declare -x MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/mozilla
> 
> But I would like to know how to fix this issue permanently, and indeed
> why it has only started asking me for this environment variable since
> changing to the new anon svn ?
> 
> Regards,
It is required by Mozilla, which we use to display HTML.  You could add
that to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile to make it more permanent.
The monodevelop script attempts to set that automatically, does it work
if you run ./monodevelop?