[MonoDevelop] MonoDevelop on RedCarpet?

[John Luke]

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 09:45 +0000, tom potts wrote:

> Thanks Todd,
> I think the main problem is one of uncertainty - which
> things to download/install - RedCarpet is sweet and
> one feels a bit unsafe overloading a safe set of libs
> - so after 2 hours of installing yet another unforseen
> dependency tends to break ones spirit - a couple of
> weeks ago I was trying to get gtksourceview installed
> and somehow trashed X11R6 and had to do a complete
> reinstall to get it fixed! Though thats more likely my
> fault for doing a make clean as root in the wrong
> place. I like to think of myself as a reasonably
> competent programmer of 25 years but its a bit scary
> coming over from windows.
> I do feel that this could be the real killer ap for
> non MS systems and I get the impression there are
> other migrants out there who are suffering from not
> being able to get this working.
> I think I'd got to gtk+-2.3.6 before I balked at
> another package upgrade required!
> 
> A list of the recommended support libs (glibda/gtk
> etc) beyond the standard RH9/RedCarpet.mono for a
> certain snapshot would be useful for me.
> 
> I'll have another go from scratch later and try and
> make a list of what I do..
> 

The next release should be on red-carpet to make it easier for people to
run.  Keep in mind compiling 0.1 versions of software from source is not
for the inexperienced.

All the dependencies should be listed in the README file.  Also, running
the configure script shows a report at the end of what you have
installed vs. what is required.  It sounds like you installed
gtksourceview-0.9 which is an unstable version and depends on
gtk+-2.3.x, which is where you ran into trouble.  I will add this to the
README so this does not happen to others.

If the README and FAQS files do not answer your question please let us
know so we can add the right information to them.