[Mono-list] Re: [Mono-devel-list] How hard is it to install Mono?

2004-08-26 Thread Stacey Abshire
Jo, > > > If they have their own package management system they control, isn't it > Linspire's job then to package mono? I would agree However, I was thinking that the mono team might approach Linspire about it. It was just a thought. If one of the intents of the mono project is make deve

Re: [Mono-list] Re: [Mono-devel-list] How hard is it to install Mono?

2004-08-26 Thread wgerrard
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:28:12 -0400, "Jonathan Pryor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The easiest way to add Debian Unstable to Linspire is to edit (IIRC) > /etc/apt/apt.conf. Google should help here. > Can't speak for Linspire, but I have used Xandros, another Debian-based commercial distribution.

[Mono-list] Re: [Mono-devel-list] How hard is it to install Mono?

2004-08-26 Thread Jo Vermeulen
Stacey Abshire wrote: I would venture this will never happen since so many in the open-source community despise linspire, but it would be nice. If they have their own package management system they control, isn't it Linspire's job then to package mono? Just my two cents... Kind regards, -- Jo

[Mono-list] Re: [Mono-devel-list] How hard is it to install Mono?

2004-08-26 Thread Stacey Abshire
Iian... Thanks for the info.. But instead of a text telling you this.. why not just add a install file to the mono-all.zip, that simply does that. Someone then downloads it, uncompresses it, and runs the install. They don't have to think about it. Just a suggestion. > Stacey, rpm -Uvh *.rpm i

[Mono-list] Re: [Mono-devel-list] How hard is it to install Mono?

2004-08-26 Thread Stacey Abshire
> > Linspire is a repackaged Debian. > Jonathan, I realize that... Of course doing that ensures that you truly screw up your Linspire install... I know, I have tried those sorts of things. What I was saying was this Linspire has a means to provide them a built package that follows their

[Mono-list] Re: [Mono-devel-list] How hard is it to install Mono?

2004-08-25 Thread Jonathan Pryor
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 14:48, Stacey Abshire wrote: > One other thing, and I really don't want to get flames on this, but it would be > very cool, if you guys could work with the Linspire group to bring the mono > runtime, and mono development tools to that linux platform. I use it for my > deskto

[Mono-list] Re: [Mono-devel-list] How hard is it to install Mono?

2004-08-25 Thread Stacey Abshire
Hello Duncan... It is interesting that you bring this up... I have been following the progress of mono for some time now, and I am getting ready to setup a box for doing development with it. I am planning on using RedHat 9, and so I downloaded the mono-all.zip... hoping in it would be a script

[Mono-list] Re: [Mono-devel-list] How hard is it to install Mono?

2004-08-25 Thread Iain McCoy
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 04:48, Stacey Abshire wrote: > Hello Duncan... > > It is interesting that you bring this up... I have been following the progress > of mono for some time now, and I am getting ready to setup a box for doing > development with it. I am planning on using RedHat 9, and so I do

[Mono-list] Re: [Mono-devel-list] How hard is it to install Mono?

2004-08-24 Thread Tizio Incognito
Duncan Mak said the following on 24/08/2004 19.58: Hello all, Hello Duncan, Is Mono too difficult to install for people new to Linux? For people with Linux experience? I'm new to Linux and, yes, it is hard. It was hard installing a clean SuSE box, it's still hard work with the new environmen