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gcrew
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 Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject: How do I get mono? |
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge mono
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icu and mono were downloaded and installed.
Now I'm trying to compile and run a simple little program called pictures.cs.
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# mcs pictures.cs -r:System.Drawing
Compilation succeeded
# ./pictures.exe
-bash: ./pictures.exe: cannot execute binary file
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I figure I need to tell it to run using the CLI, but how do I get it to do that? I assumed I would type mono, but I don't have anything called mono in my path or anywhere on my system as far as I can tell.
Thanks for any help.
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ShuQi
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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Should do the trick, if mono emerged successfully.
Maybe su to root and check if that makes a difference - path wise. |
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donjuan
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry to jump in here like this, but will somebody please tell me where everybody is finding instructions telling them to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command-line? They removed it from the handbook a few months ago. This is like the third post in two days where I've seen somebody mention using it. Please do not use it, you will break your system if you keep it up. Use /etc/portage/package.keywords instead. For more information see this post: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-1060314.html#1060314
I think I'm going to have to change my sig back to warn people about it....
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nianderson
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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to get mono you might want to try kissing someone else who has it.  |
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ShuQi
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| nianderson wrote: | | to get mono you might want to try kissing someone else who has it. |
he he he,
what would that be called then? "wemerge"? |
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gcrew
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:48 am Post subject: |
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| nianderson wrote: | | to get mono you might want to try kissing someone else who has it. :P |
Wow. That's clever.
| donjuan wrote: | Sorry to jump in here like this, but will somebody please tell me where everybody is finding instructions telling them to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command-line? They removed it from the handbook a few months ago. This is like the third post in two days where I've seen somebody mention using it. Please do not use it, you will break your system if you keep it up. Use /etc/portage/package.keywords instead. For more information see this post: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-1060314.html#1060314
I think I'm going to have to change my sig back to warn people about it....
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That link is very helpful indeed. When emerge fails because of the testing mask it says to check section 2.2 of the Handbook. There is no section 2.2! It also says to check the man page. The man page says to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to install testing packages. I'm a little confused though about why using this will break my system. I agree this would be bad in combination with the -U flag, but I never have and never plan to use that. I'm not sure I really like the idea behind package.keywords because I don't want emerge to automatically use a testing version of mono. I only want it this one time because there is no other version.
Which brings me back to my original question, is there a working (testing or otherwise) version of dev-dotnet/mono available for amd64?
Thanks.
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donjuan
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:20 am Post subject: |
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Thank you, I'll have to remember to bug report that.
The reason command-line ACCEPT_KEYWORDS is a bad idea is because when you do emerge -uD world (which you should do every once in a while to keep your system up-to-date) it will want to downgrade the package. So people think, "hmm, how can I stop this?" and they see the -U flag, so they use it. As that post pointed out, the -U flag will break your system, if not the first time you use it, then eventually. So it's best to use the package.keywords file since it will tell portage to keep using testing versions of that package.
To get around having portage upgrade to later testing versions you can tell it to accept keywords on just a single version. The handbook's example is | Code: | | =app-office/gnumeric-1.2.13 |
which will tell it to accept gnumeric-1.2.13.
I don't know much about mono, but I did see that the latest version is hard masked. You can try it by adding the line
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to /etc/portage/package.unmask and package.keywords then emerging mono. Hopefully it will work for you because the info about it on packages.gentoo.org says | Quote: | | Also add in new mono-1.1.4, which will remain p.masked but in portage for amd64 folks. |
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