[Opensim-users] OpenSim on Linux Installation Questions

[William Magee]

The Diva distribution works fine with mono 2.01. I have two Ubuntu
9.04 machines running Diva and mono 2.01.

Karmic comes with 2.4 by default, I am told.

Cheers,
Bill



On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Karen Palen <karen_palen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> FWIW, the default Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) mono is 2.01 which will NOT work!
>
> You need to find and install the latest version of mono!
>
> I THINK Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) uses the latest mono (2.4?), but I screwed up my test drive and have not had a chance to run Ubuntu 9.01 beta with Opensim yet!.
>
> DO NOT EVER turn off the power during a partition copy NEVER! NEVER!!! - ask me how I know. :-(
>
> More news at 11 or whenever I get things playing nice together again ...
>
> Karen
>
> --- On Wed, 10/7/09, John Ward <jward at uci.edu> wrote:
>
>> From: John Ward <jward at uci.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] OpenSim on Linux Installation Questions
>> To: cliveg at gmail.com, opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
>> Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 11:21 AM
>> On 10/06/2009 10:08 PM, clive gould
>> wrote:
>> > 1) Is it necessary to install mono base as the root
>> user and then
>> > install mono as the opensim user? I can understand the
>> need for the
>> > opensim user installation of mono but am not quite
>> sure if the root
>> > install of mono base as root is necessary as well.
>>
>> The way you install things in your blog you need to do it
>> as root.
>> However it is not a general requirement for mono.
>> It's important that
>> Opensim run the desired version of mono.  For our RHEL
>> servers we were
>> doing local to opensim installs of desired mono
>> versions.  That can
>> avoid conflicts with the system package
>> management.   The Opensim users
>> path needs to be configured to run the local mono.
>>
>> > 2) In the instructions I came across git was also
>> installed.
>> > Presumably git is only needed if you're fetching the
>> pre-release
>> > versions of OpenSim and not if you're downloading a
>> full .tar.gz
>> > release?
>>
>> Correct.  You only need git if you manage the source
>> content that way.
>> Getting the tar archives should not require git.
>>
>> I expect that more and more you will see Opensim users
>> using
>> distributions like Diva's instead of the direct sources.
>>
>> John./JohnnyB Hammerer
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