im in pure dependancy hell trying to get this bloody thing working ... every time I ./configure i need to google for another file im missing. Im using SuSE 9.2 pro and have supposedly installed all the needed mono and mono dev software. this is beyond a joke ive been at this crap for 2 hours... no wounder there arnt many linux C# developers :( Any one else have this problem or am i missing somthing ?

Doesn't suse have it packaged?

EDIT:? doh sussed it ... im a muppet.
First time ive booted into Linux for about 2 years and im a bit slow on the uptake

.....now with only 1 small problem ... Mono develop loads but falls over every 20 seconds :?

[Edited by - JDUK on December 18, 2004 10:02:23 PM]

I'm sorry to be off-topic, but what is dependency hell? I know it's when something has a ton of dependencies that you have to install, but what's so bad about installing some more packages? Sorry, I seriously don't get it.

To install it, try installing the packages here in the order that they tell you to install them in here. I hope that helps.

[edit] Oops, I guess I could have read and comprehended both replies before posting. Sorry.

Does it give you an error message when it dies?

I found yum to be great to solve dependency hell, if say you want to install mplayer, by calling yum install mplayer *, it will download and install all dependencies for you (which for the mplayer example, are a lot!)... then again I am a Fedora user, I don't know if Suse uses RPMs, I think not.

*: may require adding the freshrpms repository to /etc/yum.conf

Quote: Original post by nagromo
I'm sorry to be off-topic, but what is dependency hell? I know it's when something has a ton of dependencies that you have to install, but what's so bad about installing some more packages? Sorry, I seriously don't get it.

To install it, try installing the packages here in the order that they tell you to install them in here. I hope that helps.

[edit] Oops, I guess I could have read and comprehended both replies before posting. Sorry.

Does it give you an error message when it dies?

Dependancy hell as far as i understand (and have experianced) is when something has a dependancy that has multiple dependancies which also have dependanices and so on in a seemingly infinate daisy chain of missing files.


.....During a crash part way through my SuSE windows partition resize during installation im currently reinstalling every thing on my windows partition (backed up before install luckily, twice for good measure).
As soon as the DX SDK is done dowloading on my father in laws slow net connection ill boot up mono and report on the crash messages... sorted a few of them out (they where from file dependancies that the RPM install did not report :@ ).
Now it only crashes when i start a new file and try to load a project template (which im guessing is more missing files).

After that i have all the fun and excitment of installing ATi drivers under SuSE:(

Ok here are the errors im getting:
Upon starting Monodevelop:
Failed to launch configuration server: Failed to execute child process "/opt/gnome/lib/GConf/2/gconfd-2" (No such file or directory).

Upon creating a new file:
Error loading template file /usr/lib/monodevelop/bin/../AddIns/AddIns/BackendBindings/templates/NemerleGtkSharpWindow.xft.xml

Error loading template file /usr/lib/monodevelop/bin/../AddIns/AddIns/BackendBindings/templates/NemerleGtkSharpWindow.xft.xml

There is also no text in MonoDevelops main windoes when i manage to open a new project its just a blank grey space

this is terrible, ive downloaded and installed the RPMs from mono's site for SuSE 9.2 and its seems to be a terrible nightmare of missing files still.

I uses SUSE 9.1 to do some .NET and ASP.NET work. I used Redcarpet to install and update my Mono files. It works perfectly. Check out this message and it references this

The problem i now blevies is rooted in mono not detecting gtksourceveiw
as i just cant get it to display code in the maain window and the terminal is spitting out this error constanly while its running.

Error while loading System.DllNotFoundException: gtksourceview-1.0

any help any one ?

I do have gtksourceview ortherwise i couldnt get the IDE to even install.
I've checked it in yast and its there and up to date so im stumped

[Edited by - JDUK on December 19, 2004 9:39:27 PM]

Ok struggling blindly towards a soultion here...
I found that the needed libgtksourceveiw-1.0.so.0 file exists only in my opt/gnome/lib64 directory
where as all the other mono dev' needed files that i have searched for also exit in
opt/gnome/lib
so im guessing the problem is monodevelop is sourcing all its files from the 32-bit builds and cant find libgtksourceveiw-1.0.so.0 as it only exists on my system in 64 bit format... ive tried installing 32 bit versions but get dependancy errors saying that the system is trying to overwrite the 64bit version which it depends on for numerous progs (2 or 3 of which are needed for monodevelop :? )

Any ideas?