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<DIV><SPAN class=083535315-10122004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey
all,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=083535315-10122004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm learning every
day but still pretty 'young' to the world of Linux and certainly new to Ubuntu
(about 2 weeks now) so please be gentle.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=083535315-10122004><FONT face=Arial size=2>With Warty and the
Universe repository I was able to get mono 1.0.1 running without any trouble
which let me install some app's I had really wanted to try out (like Blam).
Ultimately I wanted to try out some of the new things coming with Hoary and as
this machine is really just for playing around (no important function or data) I
changed my repositories and went through the upgrade to Hoary a week or 2 ago.
This allowed me to upgrade mono to 1.0.2 (if I remember right). Recently some of
the packages in Universe (Hoary) for mono went to 1.0.4 but not all of them. I
had gotten into the practice of just blindly updating (which I won't do again)
with apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade and all of a sudden... no mono.
This is, of course, because some of the minor packages were updated but some
were not (like mono-assemblies-base) which resulted in the uninstallation of
mono.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=083535315-10122004><FONT face=Arial size=2>After several days
of attempting to follow various guides for building mono from source with all
the bells and whistles I ultimately gave up. I was never able to get the right
combination of pre-requisites, etc. to properly build mono. I managed to get
very close a couple of times but there were always errors I couldn't work out. I
got so frustrated with it that I manually removed all traces of mono from my
system and set the universe repositories to point back to Warty and managed to
get mono 1.0.1 re-installed. I believe I'll leave it this way for the short
term.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=083535315-10122004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can anyone offer up
a DEFINITIVE, detailed guide for installing mono for general use AND for
development (using MonoDevelop)? I'd also sincerely appreciate a detailed guide
to building mono, customized if need be, for the Ubuntu distro (Hoary
preferred).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=083535315-10122004><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=083535315-10122004><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Matt</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>