sudo apt install capnproto
This installs v0.7.0 in my ubuntu 20.04. However, i require v0.8.0 to be installed.
Also, i need v0.6.1 to be installed additionally for backward compatibility.
Any solution for these two cases ?
You will probably need to install from source rather than use a distro package. Unfortunately, it sounds like the Ubuntu distro package hasn't been updated in a while.
Instructions for building and installing from source can be found here: https://capnproto.org/install.html
Old versions are available by changing the version number in the download URL to whichever version you need.
Note that all versions of Cap'n Proto are backwards-compatible, so there should be no need to install older versions, unless you need to run a specific complied binary that was linked against a specific old version.
Today I tried to upgrade the "icu" pacman package, because I need it for NodeJS to work.
After I installed the newest version my system completely broke, I can't even start it up anymore.
Does anybody know how to fix the problem with Node or how to correctly upgrade the "icu" package?
You shouldn't upgrade individual packages. Instead, you should upgrade the entire system. The reason for this is that the dependencies that exist between packages will break sooner or later if you perform partial upgrades.
If you can't boot your system any more, try booting on the installation media, mount the installed disk, arch-chroot into it and run pacman -Syu.
The proper way to upgrade Arch linux is described here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Upgrading_the_system
Mono website suggested this
On RPM distributions, force the package version in your package manager - all older versions are published in the YUM metadata and should be available.
I have no idea how to go about the above?
Thanks in advance.
I tried to install mono and monodevelop on centOS 6.3.
After many hours I was able to install mono but failed with monodevelop.
I'm really astonished how difficult and time consuming it is, to get a recent mono/monodevelop version on linux installed.
Is there nobody willing to write and maintain an install/compile tutorial to get the most recent mono/monodevelop/monodata/ASP.NET MVC/... version on the major linux distributions (Centos, Ubuntu, Suse, Debian) installed?
I think many people developing on Windows (with limited linux knowledge) would like to start using mono, if the boarding hurdle would be somehow lower.
It may be the most important to make Mono more used and more visible.
Please, write a tested tutorial (script) for compiling mono/monodevelop.
Thank you!
I have created a project on Open Build Service, which produces builds of the latest MonoDevelop 4.0.10 for Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Fedora.
see https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:tpokorra:mono
For installation instructions with apt-get or yum, see:
http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=home:tpokorra:mono&package=monodevelop-opt
I hope this will increase the usage of MonoDevelop on Linux Desktop environments.
Monodevelop 4.
If you use any *buntu. Check this.
"You can open up the terminal and install it via the following:
1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:keks9n/monodevelop-latest
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install monodevelop-latest"
http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/?p=101
Xamarin should be doing a better job at publishing the linux packages in a one-click manner. I don't care what linux distro (SuSE, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu etc) - just pick any one as the supported one and publish for it. It seemed that it used to be SuSE but even that has old packages as seen within Zypper/YaST.
Update Mono framework
Having said that, to update the Mono framework itself, without letting go of the package managers try this. This will work as long as the project dutifully publishes the RPMs. You don't want to build from source since it's a more fickle process and the setup distracts from your real objective (i.e. develop).
Obviously, please replace the URL below to what will be latest by the time you're reading this.
mkdir mono-rpms
cd mono-rpms
wget --reject "index.html*" -nd -r -e robots=off --no-parent http://download.mono-project.com/archive/3.2.3/linux/x64/
sudo zypper install *rpm
Update MonoDevelop (the IDE)
Timotheus Pokorra's answer indicates he's filling in some of the usability void left by Xamarin (Thanks Timotheus!!). You can install MonoDevelop via
http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=home:tpokorra:mono&package=monodevelop-opt
Note that on SuSE I get the error
Problem: nothing provides liberation-mono-fonts needed by mono-libgdiplus-opt-3.0.12-7.1.x86_64
Solution 1: do not install monodevelop-opt-4.0.12-5.2.x86_64
Solution 2: break mono-libgdiplus-opt-3.0.12-7.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
I (very reluctantly) selected to break the dependency. Note that I already had liberation-fonts (via sudo zypper install liberation-fonts). I don't know if its the same/different as liberation-mono-fonts. Anyway, hope Timotheus fixes it when he has a moment.
I'm not sure if you've already seen this, but this may help:
http://www.mono-project.com/Parallel_Mono_Environments
The most common problem that new developers have when coming to Linux from systems like Windows is not properly setting up their environment variables and so when they do the standard ./configure && make && make install routine, when it involves a number of source packages (like Mono does), any package that depends on the core package won't pick up the correct location for that base package.
Your question really doesn't explain what parts you found confusing or difficult so it's hard to address those issues.
For people unfamiliar with setting up Linux systems, it may be easier if you just go with a system like Ubuntu which has fairly recent pre-built packages (although not the latest - I don't think any Linux system keeps up with Mono releases) rather than wrestling with the learning curve of how to build everything yourself.
It is confirmed that in the near future Xamarin will support Linux and provide binaries (mono and mainline applications) for Debian and Centos derivatives, and their are already packages for Debian and Centos derivatives for technical preview. So cheers and no more pain of compiling and even parallel mono installaions.It can not get more easy than this. Check here
I am trying to install fuse via yum on our RHEL5 instance. Its not available in my yum list.
After checking, some sites suggests enabling rpmforge repo will provide the package in yum to install. I enabled rpmforge repo (latest for RHEL5), but there is no fuse in that as well.
I tried with EPEL repo as well, same result.
Can anyone help me to find the root cause of this?
Note: I can install fuse using src, but that is not working for the other software I am trying to install (s3fs), that's why I need the yum to get working so that I would have all the latest packages needed.
Thanks for the help.
-Noman A.
FUSE (kmod-fuse) has moved from RPMforge to ELRepo, since ELRepo focusses on hardware enablement for RHEL and derivative distributions (like CentOS or Scientific Linux).
http://elrepo.org/
Beware that in more recent releases of RHEL5, FUSE is part of the kernel.