[MonoDevelop] MonoDevelop does not start on Mint

[Mike Krüger]

Hi

It's most likely because mint is shipped with a very outdated mono.
The mono on mint is outdated ... the mint developers didn't want/care to 
upgrade to mono 2.6.
I've written in their forums but it didn't do anything.

I recommend using a parallel mono on mint. (If you want I can send you 
an automated installation script for setting up a parallel mono 
environment on mint)

Regards
Mike
> Using "Software Manager" , I installed MonoDevelop 2.2
> The problem is it does not want to start at all. It stays forever on the
> splash screen.
> CPU usage goes to 100%
> I tried waiting but nothing happened, just a splash screen and 100% CPU.
> I use (the latest) Mint, "out-of-the-box". The only additions besides
> MonoDevelop are what update manager suggested and I dutifully obliged.
> If it matters machine is laptop Dell Inspiron 6000, 512MB RAM, plenty of HD
> free space.
>
> Any idea anyone ?
>
> Many thanks: DBJDBJ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anirudh [mailto:anirudh at anirudhsanjeev.org]
> Sent: 10 June 2010 10:27
> To: dbj at dbj.org
> Cc: Michael Hutchinson; jkp2505; monodevelop-list at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [MonoDevelop] Hello MonoDevelop World
>
> Hi Dusan,
>
> I installed MonoDevelop from the Ubuntu 10.04 repositories for a
> friend and everything from the debugger to the gtk# libraries worked
> perfectly fine. The apt policy shows that MonoDevelop version 2.2.1 is
> available.
>
> I've been using MD for a year now, and the core product of our startup
> is being built using Mono and GTK#, and except for a few small issues
> (since we are using the SVN build), it seems to be remarkably stable
> and usable. I will be happy to point you to our codebase if you would
> like.
>
> Thanks,
> Anirudh
>
> --
> http://anirudhsanjeev.org
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Dusan Jovanovic<dbj at dbj.org>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried before with almost 0 response, but never mind, let me try again.
>>
>> I would like to use MonoDevelop latest stable version on my Mint Linux
>>      
> (the
>    
>> latest) laptop.
>> I have no wish to use anything like GTK# or similar. I just would like to
>>      
> be
>    
>> able to make "hello world" console in C#, and to be able to follow it
>> through debugger. Not more than that as the "step one". The key questions
>>      
> it
>    
>> seems are:
>>
>> 1 :: Is MonoDevelop in usable state for the Mint/Ubuntu ? if yes, is the
>> "usual" way the best way to install it?
>> 2 :: What parts are in what stage, eg : experimental, alpha, beta, stable
>>      
> ?
>    
>> 3 :: Where can one find an up-to-date list of all the MonoDevelop related
>> subprojects and their status ?
>>
>> Also, where can I find usefull and consistent info on "real life"
>>      
> projects,
>    
>> people and companies using Mono+MonoDevelop, developing and delivering
>> software for which customers are actually paying ?
>>
>> Many thanks: Mr D.Jovanovic, Msc Arch, London UK
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: monodevelop-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com
>> [mailto:monodevelop-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Michael
>> Hutchinson
>> Sent: 09 June 2010 20:48
>> To: jkp2505
>> Cc: monodevelop-list at lists.ximian.com
>> Subject: Re: [MonoDevelop] Problem When Trying to Create a GTK Project
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:57 PM, jkp2505<jkp2505 at yahoo.co.uk>  wrote:
>>      
>>> I have just started experimenting with Mono and MonoDevelop but
>>> unfortunately I am already having problems. When I try to create a new
>>>        
>> Gtk#
>>      
>>> project in the IDE I get to the New Project dialog but the Target Gtk
>>> Version drop down is empty and disabled. If I continue anyway then I get
>>>        
> a
>    
>>> nullreferenceexception but the new project still gets created. None of
>>>        
> the
>    
>>> references in the project can be resolved so there's no way it will
>>>        
> build.
>    
>>> I'm running MonoDevelop 2.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 and I installed it using the
>>> Software Centre. Do I need to manually install some more packages or
>>> something? I looked at
>>>        
>   http://www.mono-project.com/GtkSharpBeginnersGuide
>    
>>> www.mono-project.com/GtkSharpBeginnersGuide  but it just confused me
>>>        
> more.
>    
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>        
>> AFAIK the Ubuntu Mono packages break up the GTK# package into core and
>> dev package, and their MonoDevelop package doesn't install the GTK#
>> dev package.
>>
>> --
>> Michael Hutchinson
>> http://mjhutchinson.com
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