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Updated MonoDevelop Repository

May 24, 2010 digitaleagle Gnome-RDP, Mono, Troubleshooting, Uncategorized Leave a comment

I have been trying to work with MonoDevelop and GnomeRDP. I couldn’t get it to open the project because I needed the newer version of Monodevelop as described here. I figured out how to install MonoDevelop manually. The problem with all of this is that you have to get all of the dependencies yourself.

So, instead I finally found a repository with Monodevelop 2.2 in it:

How to install MonoDevelop 2.2 on Ubuntu 9.10?

Errors Opening Gnome-RDP Project

May 15, 2010 digitaleagle Gnome-RDP, Mono, Uncategorized 1 Comment

I ran into an error opening the Experimental branch of Gnome-RDP, and I wanted to post it in case anyone else ran into the same problem. Here is what the error looked like:

screenshot_143

Here is the text:

Could not load solution: <solution path>. Could not set property ‘Policies’ in type ‘Solution’.

Load operation failed. Could not set property ‘Polieis’ in type ‘Solution’

Error while trying to load the project ‘<project path>’: Could not set property ‘Policies’ in type ‘DotNetProject’

Error while trying to load the project ‘<project path>’: Could not set property ‘Policies’ in type ‘DotNetProject’

The solution apparently, as found in this bug post, is to install a new version of Mono-Develop. I see now that the post has a repository that you can use. I ran across these instructions, and I detailed my execution of those instructions on my previous posts.

Installing an Alternate MonoDevelop

May 15, 2010 digitaleagle Gnome-RDP, Mono, Uncategorized 2 Comments

I needed a newer version of Monodevelop, and I couldn’t find a repository that would allow me to just update it with apt-get. Rather than change all the libraries that other programs might be using, I thought these instructions might provide a safe solution anyway. So, I embarked on installed a standalone version self-contained in this directory:

/home/skp/app/blog

The first step settings up your environment variables to separate your environment out. Like the instructions, I created a mono-dev-env file: gedit mono-dev-env. Here is my file:

#!/bin/bash
MONO_PREFIX=/home/skp/app/blog
GNOME_PREFIX=/home/skp/app/blog
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MONO_PREFIX/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MONO_PREFIX/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export C_INCLUDE_PATH=$MONO_PREFIX/include:$GNOME_PREFIX/include
export ACLOCAL_PATH=$MONO_PREFIX/share/aclocal
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$MONO_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig:$GNOME_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig
PATH=$MONO_PREFIX/bin:$PATH
PS1="[mono] \w @ "

Then make sure that you source it in:

. ./mono-dev-env

I downloaded the various packages mostly from this page. I setup a special directory called “downloads” for those file that I downloaded.

[mono] ~/app/blog @ mkdir downloads
[mono] ~/app/blog @ cd downloads

Next, I downloaded libgdiplus from the releases page. I uncompressed it and installed it with these commands:

wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/libgdiplus/libgdiplus-2.6.4.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf libgdiplus-2.6.4.tar.bz2
cd libgdiplus-2.6.4
./configure --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX
make
make install

Next, I installed mono from the releases page with these commands:

wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono/mono-2.6.4.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf mono-2.6.4.tar.bz2
cd mono-2.6.4
./configure --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX
make
make install

Next, I installed gtk-sharp from the same releases page:

wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/gtk-sharp212/gtk-sharp-2.12.10.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf gtk-sharp-2.12.10.tar.bz2
cd gtk-sharp-2.12.10
./configure --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX
make
make install

Next, I installed mono-tools from the same releases page:

wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono-tools/mono-tools-2.6.2.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf mono-tools-2.6.2.tar.bz2
cd mono-tools-2.6.2
./configure --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX
make
make install

Next, I installed mono-addins from the same releases page:

wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono-addins/mono-addins-0.4.zip
unzip mono-addins-0.4.zip
cd mono-addins-0.4
./configure --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX
make
make install

Next, I installed monodevelop from the same releases page:

wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/monodevelop/monodevelop-2.2.2.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf monodevelop-2.2.2.tar.bz2
cd monodevelop-2.2.2
./configure --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX
make
make install

Next, I installed gnome-sharp from the same releases page:

wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/gnome-sharp2/gnome-sharp-2.24.1.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf gnome-sharp-2.24.1.tar.bz2
cd gnome-sharp-2.24.1
./configure --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX
make
make install

Next, I installed gnome-desktop-sharp from the same releases page:

wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/gnome-desktop-sharp2/gnome-desktop-sharp-2.24.0.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf  gnome-desktop-sharp-2.24.0.tar.bz2
cd gnome-desktop-sharp-2.24.0
./configure --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX
make
make install

Next, I installed gnome-keyring-sharp. With the help of a link or two, I found I could download it here:

wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/gnome-keyring-sharp/gnome-keyring-sharp-1.0.0.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf  gnome-keyring-sharp-1.0.0.tar.bz2
cd gnome-keyring-sharp-1.0.0
./configure --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX
make
make install

Next, I installed Mono.Cairo. With the help of this page, I found I could download it here:

wget http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.8.10.tar.gz
tar -xzvf cairo-1.8.10.tar.gz
cd cairo-1.8.10
./configure --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX
make
make install

Next, I installed DBusSharp. I found I could download it here:

wget http://www.ndesk.org/archive/dbus-sharp/ndesk-dbus-0.6.0.tar.gz
tar -xzvf ndesk-dbus-0.6.0.tar.gz
cd ndesk-dbus-0.6.0
./configure --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX
make
make install

Now, for the time of reconing — start monodevelop:

monodevelop

So, here is the About dialog:

screenshot_142

Installing Mono Dependencies

May 14, 2010 digitaleagle Gnome-RDP, Troubleshooting, Uncategorized Leave a comment

I pulled the latest version of Gnome-RDP, and ran into a few errors when compiling.

screenshot_134

Here is how I solved the problems:

For the “Reference ‘Mono.Cairo’ not found on system”, I found a tutorial page with links to the download. I downloaded the latest version from the releases page.

I uncompressed the download into “cairo-1.8.8”, and opened a command-line into that directory. I ran the configure with my custom path because I have a specially compiled version of MonoDevelop that I am using:

./configure --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX

Then, I compiled and installed:

make
make install

Finally, my project was requiring a specific version, and I downloaded a newer version. So, I just unchecked the require version flag:

screenshot_141

For the “Assembly ‘NDesk.DBus'” error, I downloaded the library from the DBusSharp page. Then, I uncompressed it into the folder “ndesk-dbus-0.6.0”. Again, I added the prefix option because I had a special path for MonoDevelop:

./configure --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX

Then, I compiled and installed:

make
make install

Finally, the /tmp/tmp22c1daf8.tmp problem was caused by this message:

** (/home/skp/app/gnome-rdp/monodevelop/lib/mono/2.0/gmcs.exe:4434): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /home/skp/app/gnome-rdp/gnome-rdp-temp/gnome-rdp/gnome-rdp-dockyplugin/References/Docky.Items.dll could not be loaded:
Assembly:   notify-sharp    (assemblyref_index=17)
Version:    0.4.0.0
Public Key: 2df29c54e245917a
The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the executing assembly (/home/skp/app/gnome-rdp/gnome-rdp-temp/gnome-rdp/gnome-rdp-dockyplugin/References/).
** (/home/skp/app/gnome-rdp/monodevelop/lib/mono/2.0/gmcs.exe:4434): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /home/skp/app/gnome-rdp/gnome-rdp-temp/gnome-rdp/gnome-rdp-dockyplugin/References/Docky.Items.dll could not be loaded:     Assembly:   notify-sharp    (assemblyref_index=17)     Version:    0.4.0.0     Public Key: 2df29c54e245917aThe assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the executing assembly (/home/skp/app/gnome-rdp/gnome-rdp-temp/gnome-rdp/gnome-rdp-dockyplugin/References/).

I found the library’s home page, but I didn’t see a release yet. So, I had to download from the repository. First, I had to have the hg command installed:

sudo apt-get install mercurial

Then, I used the command from the homepage to download the code:

hg clone http://hg.circular-chaos.org/notify-sharp

But, that is a broken link. Well, I am running out of time for this one on my lunch break, so I will have to come back to it. I found a post suggesting to pull it from Gnome-Do. I probably already have it installed somewhere.

VMWare on Linux

May 14, 2010 digitaleagle Uncategorized, Virtualization Leave a comment

After the latest kernel update, it struck me that VMWare has come a long ways. I remember when I had to go to the command-line and run the configure program. That would go through the whole kernel module compile process. It worked, but it was kind of ugly.

Well, now it looks pretty slick:

screenshot_080

Everything just worked. No problems to work through or worry whether I had everything in place.

Thanks, VMWare for the great work!

Getting MceUsb Remote to Work on Mythbuntu 10.04

May 10, 2010 digitaleagle Troubleshooting, Uncategorized 3 Comments

I have been trying to get my remote to work on my new Mythbuntu installation — so far no luck. So, don’t expect and answer at the end of this. I will try to post an answer when I get one.

Here is first clue:

sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart verbose
* Stopping remote control daemon(s): LIRC                               [ OK ]
* Loading LIRC modules                                                  [ OK ]
* Unable to load LIRC kernel modules. Verify your
* selected kernel modules in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart verbose
* Stopping remote control daemon(s): LIRC                               [ OK ]
* Loading LIRC modules                                                  [ OK ]
* Unable to load LIRC kernel modules. Verify your
* selected kernel modules in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf

So, I found this article with the same problem. The solution was to install a generic kernel, so I wanted to check a few other threads. Then, I found this article. I went with it since it was a more recent version. It calls for these two commands:

skp@gabriel:~$ sudo mv /lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/ubuntu/lirc/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.ko ~/.
[sudo] password for skp:
skp@gabriel:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc-modules-source
Package `lirc-modules-source' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: lirc-modules-source is not installed

Since it said I didn’t have the package installed, I tried to install it:

skp@gabriel:~$ sudo apt-get install lirc-modules-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
kernel-source
The following NEW packages will be installed:
lirc-modules-source
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 273kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,204kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe lirc-modules-source 0.8.6-0ubuntu4 [273kB]
Fetched 273kB in 1s (159kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package lirc-modules-source.
(Reading database ... 160587 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking lirc-modules-source (from .../lirc-modules-source_0.8.6-0ubuntu4_all.deb) ...
Setting up lirc-modules-source (0.8.6-0ubuntu4) ...
Loading new lirc-0.8.6 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 2.6.32-22-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 2.6.32-22-generic
Done.

lirc_dev.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_atiusb.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_bt829.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_ite8709.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_i2c.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_igorplugusb.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_imon.ko:
Running module version sanity check.

Error! Module version 0.6 for lirc_imon.ko
is not newer than what is already found in kernel 2.6.32-22-generic (0.6).
You may override by specifying --force.

lirc_it87.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_mceusb.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_ttusbir.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_sasem.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_serial.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_sir.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_streamzap.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_ene0100.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_wpc8769l.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod........

DKMS: install Completed.

With that complete, I checked to make sure it reinstalled that module:

skp@gabriel:~$ ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/ubuntu/lirc/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.ko
ls: cannot access /lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/ubuntu/lirc/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.ko: No such file or directory

Nope, but maybe this isn’t my kernel:

skp@gabriel:~$ uname -r
2.6.32-22-generic

So, let’s try that again with the uname -r in place: