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STILL no Ubuntu packages. The official repos are back in 2.x.x land.

by skrowl 13y ago

profquail 13y ago
You can use this PPA to get updated packages for Ubuntu/Debian: https://launchpad.net/~directhex/+archive/monoxide https://launchpad.net/~directhex/+archive/monoxide
romanovcode 13y ago
Well compiling it from sources is not THAT hard. git clone git://github.com/mono/mono.git cd mono ./autogen.sh make sudo make install
- skrowl 13y ago
  The idea of package management is more than "easy to install once". It's also "easy to keep up to date". For example, apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade and I just updated my packaged mono vs having to go find that there was a tagged update, then rebuild, etc.
- e12e 13y ago
  That might be, but how do you then make a source-package of your program that compiles and installs successfully on the target distributions that don't have an up-to-date mono toolchain? Because while a developer might follow upstream, users shouldn't have to...
  - e12e 13y ago
    It's actually quite a bit worse than that. For instance, I successfully built and installed mono locally now, but am unable to run simple gtk-applications. git clone git://github.com/mono/mono.git mono.git cd mono.git ./autogen.sh --prefix=${HOME}/opt make get-monolite-latest # Need mono to compile mono make EXTERNAL_MCS="${PWD}/mcs/class/lib/monolite/gmcs.exe" make install export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${HOME}/opt I can now successfully compile and run a command-line hello world, but a simple gtk-test (and winforms test) fail when attempting to run the examples. This probably has someting to do with linking and assemblies, but experimenting with PKG_CONFIG_PATH, GAC_PATH and MONO_PATH makes no apparent difference... cat <<eof > hello.cs using System; public class HelloWorld { static public void Main () { Console.WriteLine ("Hello Mono World!"); } } eof mcs hello.cs mono hello.exe > Hello Mono World! cat<<eof > hello-gtk.cs using Gtk; using System; class HelloWorld { static void Main () { Application.Init(); Window w = new Window("Hello Mono World!"); w.Show(); Application.Run(); }} eof mcs hello-gtk.cs -pkg:gtk-sharp-2.0 mono hello-gtk.exe > Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'gtk-sharp, (...)
fiatmoney 13y ago
It's coming in 14.04. Mark your calendar for April 17th.
friism 13y ago
These 3rd party ones are pretty good and recent: http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=home:tpokorra:mono&package=mono-opt http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=home:t...

STILL no Ubuntu packages. The official repos are back in 2.x.x land.

by skrowl 13y ago

STILL no Ubuntu packages. The official repos are back in 2.x.x land.

You can use this PPA to get updated packages for Ubuntu/Debian: https://launchpad.net/~directhex/+archive/monoxide https://launchpad.net/~directhex/+archive/monoxide

romanovcode 13y ago

Well compiling it from sources is not THAT hard. git clone git://github.com/mono/mono.git cd mono ./autogen.sh make sudo make install

skrowl 13y ago
The idea of package management is more than "easy to install once". It's also "easy to keep up to date". For example, apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade and I just updated my packaged mono vs having to go find that there was a tagged update, then rebuild, etc.
e12e 13y ago
That might be, but how do you then make a source-package of your program that compiles and installs successfully on the target distributions that don't have an up-to-date mono toolchain? Because while a developer might follow upstream, users shouldn't have to...
- e12e 13y ago
  It's actually quite a bit worse than that. For instance, I successfully built and installed mono locally now, but am unable to run simple gtk-applications. git clone git://github.com/mono/mono.git mono.git cd mono.git ./autogen.sh --prefix=${HOME}/opt make get-monolite-latest # Need mono to compile mono make EXTERNAL_MCS="${PWD}/mcs/class/lib/monolite/gmcs.exe" make install export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${HOME}/opt I can now successfully compile and run a command-line hello world, but a simple gtk-test (and winforms test) fail when attempting to run the examples. This probably has someting to do with linking and assemblies, but experimenting with PKG_CONFIG_PATH, GAC_PATH and MONO_PATH makes no apparent difference... cat <<eof > hello.cs using System; public class HelloWorld { static public void Main () { Console.WriteLine ("Hello Mono World!"); } } eof mcs hello.cs mono hello.exe > Hello Mono World! cat<<eof > hello-gtk.cs using Gtk; using System; class HelloWorld { static void Main () { Application.Init(); Window w = new Window("Hello Mono World!"); w.Show(); Application.Run(); }} eof mcs hello-gtk.cs -pkg:gtk-sharp-2.0 mono hello-gtk.exe > Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'gtk-sharp, (...)

fiatmoney 13y ago

It's coming in 14.04. Mark your calendar for April 17th.

friism 13y ago

These 3rd party ones are pretty good and recent: http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=home:tpokorra:mono&package=mono-opt http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=home:t...