[MonoDevelop] Deployment for desktop applications

[Quandary]

  You have a problem there.
First and foremost, there are several versions of Linux:
Mainly RedHat, Debian, ArchLinux, and Gentoo.

RedHat uses .rpm files,
Debian uses .deb files
Arch linux uses pacman packages
And Gentoo uses emerge ports.

Now, you can probably neglect Gentoo and Arch Linux, as Debian/Ubuntu 
and RedHat are the big ones.
As far as Debian is concerned, all you need to do is create a folder, 
and then create subfolders of installation folders where you want to put 
your program, e.g. /opt/yourcompanyname/yourproduct, and put your 
compiled files in there. Then you add the preinstallation and 
postinstallation scripts (containing actions such as adding a gnome menu 
entry [equivalent windows startmenu entry]) and the dependency textfile, 
which contains references to mono.
Then you zip your folder contents and rename the zip file to .deb.
If you did it right, you'll be able to install your file on Debian via 
dpkg -i yourpackagename.deb
apt/dpkg will then take care of installing mono first if it is not yet 
installed. apt-get can also take care of automagically updating your 
package, if you provide a repository entry with the installation.

I don't know much about rpm, but I think monodevelop commercial 
additions let you create a redhat/suse installer file. If you want to do 
it by hand, it should be similar to the debian process. It's not 
difficult really, just get a .deb and a .rpm file, unzip them and look 
at their structure.









Am 23.10.2010 16:26, schrieb Derek JW Cahusac de Caux:
> Hi - I'm new to MD and C# (thoroughly enjoying both) and am now at the 
> stage where I'd like to 'package and ship' simple C# desktop 
> applications to end users (on both Linux and Windows).
>
> These tutorials from Visual Studio look fairly good:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k3bb4tfd%28v=VS.100%29.aspx
> http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/58021-deploying-a-c%23-application-visual-studio-setup-project/
>
> Any pointers to the equivalent guides in MD would be most appreciated.
>
> I really want to avoid asking end users to extract tarballs, drop down 
> to Terminal and run " sudo ./configure && make && make install" if at 
> all possible....
>
> Thnaks, Derek
> -- 
> Derek JW Cahusac de Caux
>
>
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