How to install MonoDevelop 2.4 from sources?

Question

I installed (./configure; make; sudo make install). Mono bunzip2 -df xsp-2.8 mono-2.8, libgdiplus-2.8, gtk-sharp-2.12.10, mono-addins-0.5, gnome-sharp -2.20.1 packages from ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/

Then I tried to install monodevelop-2.4, but it says “configure: error: Unable to enable the GNOME platform without gnome-sharp-2.0” (while gnome-sharp-2.0 IS is installed).

How to overcome this?

I found many posts on the Internet reporting the same problem, but not an actual solution.

I am running Ubuntu 10.10 x32. Ubuntu's standard Mono packages (for Mono 2.6) are NOT installed.

Answer 1

Your gnome-sharp assembly is probably incomplete. gnome-sharp consists of several assemblies, and one of them may not have been created due to the lack of dependencies.

To fix this, run. / configure again for gnome-sharp and make sure at the end it says yes to all builds. If it says “no” for one of them, you will need to install the necessary devel packages (see the NOTE shown by the configure script for the dependency list).