[Opensim-users] OpenSim on Linux Installation Questions

[William Magee]

Can you elaborate on this, please DrS?

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:04 AM, dr scofield <drscofield at xyzzyxyzzy.net> wrote:
> William Magee wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> mono 2.0.1 is quite stable, however, if you are at all concerned about
> resource use, you need to go the mono 2.4.2+ route.
>
>     DrS/dirk
>
> 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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