Mono 1.2.4 on CentOS 5?

dowdle · Post by **dowdle** » 2007/05/23 17:25:32

Greetings,

The mono folks have packages for RHEL4 and lower and Fedora Core 5 and lower. I tried the all distributions .bin package and it installs but doesn't work very well.

I see karan as well as another fellow have added mono 1.1.x series packages to a testing repo (and I think rpmforge/dag has that too)... but I can't seem to find any builds of the newer mono releases... so I'm searching for a clue.

I searched the mono sites and started a topic on the gotmono forums but so far no answers.

Clues?

Thank in advance for any consideration.

justinc · Post by **justinc** » 2007/05/23 19:44:19

I have rebuild the 1.1.17 from Fedora 6 and the 1.2.3 from Fedora 7.

You should be able to build this for CentOS 5

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wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/mono-1.2.3-3.fc7.src.rpm

rpmbuild --recompile --rebuild --define 'dist .el5' mono-1.2.3-3.fc7.src.rpm
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You could try pulling the src down, change the spec file to 1.2.4 and rebuild that.

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rpmbuild -ba --define 'dist .el5' mono.spec
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dowdle · Post by **dowdle** » 2007/05/23 23:53:01

Well, I gave your first suggestion a try and it told me I had a failed dependency: libgdiplus-devel >= 1.2.1

libgdiplus-devel won't install via yum (package not found). :(

justinc · Post by **justinc** » 2007/05/24 01:00:34

Then you need to grab that and build it too :)

There might be a several packages you need to build, just keep grabbing them from fedora core/extras 6 and you will end up with what you need!

Fedora Core/Extra 6 is almost a perfect match with rhel/centos 5. That is pretty much the core they started from.

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