[MonoDevelop] Help Installing monodevelop 2.0

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Carlos Ruiz Diaz
<carlos.ruizdiaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having problems installing the mentioned version of monodevelop on
> opensuse 10.3 with mono-2.4, the last release.
>
> After following the steps listed in http://monodevelop.com/Download I
> installed all the packages in exactly this order:
>
>     *  Mono.Addins 0.3.1
>     * Gtk# 2.8.5
>     * Monodoc 2.0
>     * MonoDevelop Source
>
> but using Gtk# 2.12.8 instead of Gtk# 2.8.5 because of a compilation problem
> with the older version.
>
> Finishing, I executed monodevelop command from terminal but during startup
> its stderr show lots of FileNotFoundException. The first one with
> Monodevelop.Deployment and then with almost all dependencies and plugins.
>
> I also tried with the one-click-install but with worse results.

It seems likely that you have mixed up a source install and the
packages across /usr/local and /usr, possibly also mixing up different
parts of different versions.

Please read http://mjhutchinson.com/journal/2007/11/08/how_not_break_mono,
and if you wish to install from source, follow
http://www.mono-project.com/Parallel_Mono_Environments

The best thing to do is to remove the mono-related files from both
installs -- /usr/lib/mono, /usr/lib/monodevelop,  and all the
mono-related stuff from /usr/local (might just be easiest to remove
/usr/local/lib if you haven't installed other stuff there) then
re-install from the Mono repository packages. On openSUSE you have
access to the latest and best Mono and MonoDevelop packages, so you
shouldn't need to build from source.

-- 
Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com