[HOWTO] Installing Mono, Nant and GIT on CentOS 5.3

Nebadon Izumi · **Posted:** Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:41 am

Installing & Compiling Mono and Nant and setting up GIT on CentOS 5.3

1st step is to insure that CentOS 5.3 is fully updated by performing a "yum upgrade"
once the system is updated and restarted continue on.

we will start by 1st un-installing any included mono packages.
please insure the following packages are removed

Code:

yum erase libgdiplus.i386 libgdiplus-devel.i386 mod_mono.i386 mono-core.i386 mono-data.i386 mono-data-firebird.i386 mono-data-oracle.i386 mono-data-postgresql.i386 mono-data-sqlite.i386 mono-data-sybase.i386 mono-devel.i386 mono-extras.i386 mono-jscript.i386 mono-locale-extras.i386 mono-nunit.i386 mono-nunit-devel.i386

It is likely these packages may not be installed, if not just move on we do not want them installed.

Code:

libgdiplus.i386 : libgdiplus: An Open Source implementation of the GDI+ API
libgdiplus-devel.i386 : Development files for libgdiplus
mod_mono.i386 : A module to deploy an ASP.NET application on Apache with Mono
mono-core.i386 : The Mono CIL runtime, suitable for running .NET code
mono-data.i386 : Database connectivity for Mono
mono-data-firebird.i386 : Firebird database connectivity for Mono
mono-data-oracle.i386 : Oracle database connectivity for Mono
mono-data-postgresql.i386 : Postgresql database connectivity for Mono
mono-data-sqlite.i386 : sqlite database connectivity for Mono
mono-data-sybase.i386 : Sybase database connectivity for Mono
mono-devel.i386 : Development tools for Mono
mono-extras.i386 : Provides the infrastructure for running and building daemons
                 : and services with Mono as well as various stub assemblies
mono-jscript.i386 : JScript .NET support for Mono
mono-locale-extras.i386 : Extra locale information for Mono
mono-nunit.i386 : NUnit Testing Framework
mono-nunit-devel.i386 : pkgconfig for nunit

once you have insured these packages are not installed, now lets install a basic mono v2.4 base

enter the following line to download mono 2.4

Code:

wget http://wiki.ossafe.org/download/attachments/426003/mono2-2.4-ossafe_2.i386.rpm

now to install it: (super user required)

Code:

rpm -ivh mono2-2.4-ossafe_2.i386.rpm

now insure mono 2.4 is working:

Code:

mono -V

once you have verified mono 2.4 is installed lets install some required packages now (super user required)

Code:

yum install libtool.i386 libpng.i386 libpng-devel.i386 libjpeg.i386 libjpeg-devel.i386 libtiff.i386 libtiff-devel.i386 libexif.i386 libexif-devel.i386 giflib.i386 giflib-devel.i386 bison.i386 bison-devel.i386 automake.noarch autoconf.noarch make.i386 gcc.i386 gtk+.i386 subversion.i386 libX11-devel.i386 freetype.i386 freetype-devel.i386 gettext.i386 glib2 glib2-devel

ok confirm and install all of these above packages before continuing on i also suggest you reboot the server at this time.

Before continuing on to the next steps be sure you have exited "su" and that you are back in your normal user space, this is very important step!!

now lets get the most current version of mono 2.5+ daily tarball installed
(replace all instances of <user> with your actual linux login name)

Libgdigplus is required for mono 2
libgdiplus from Tarball:

http://mono.ximian.com/monobuild/snapshot/sources-trunk/
download the snapshot (libgdiplus-xxxxxx.tar.bz2) for libgdiplus that is available at the time you click the link above.

tar xfv libgdiplus-xxxxxx.tar.bz2
cd libgdiplus-xxxxxx
./configure --prefix=/home/<user>/bin/mono
make
make install

Mono From Tarball:

http://mono.ximian.com/monobuild/snapshot/sources-trunk/
download the snapshot (mono-xxxxxx.tar.bz2) for mono that is available at the time you click the link above.

tar xfv mono-xxxxxx.tar.bz2
cd mono-xxxxxx
./configure --prefix=/home/<user>/bin/mono
make
make install

now to add mono configurations to your user space edit the .bashrc file in your /home/<user> and insert and adjust the following for your specific install .

<user>

you can now restart your SSH session or user login to refresh the settings.

now to verify mono is working type:

Code:

mono -V

you should see something like the following (#'s and Dates will vary)
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Code:

Mono JIT compiler version 139892 (tarball Thu Aug 13 23:02:13 MST 2009)
Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Novell, Inc and Contributors. http://www.mono-project.com
        TLS:           __thread
        GC:            Included Boehm (with typed GC and Parallel Mark)
        SIGSEGV:       altstack
        Notifications: epoll
        Architecture:  x86
        Disabled:      none

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Next we will install Nant binaries and insure its functionality

Download Nant:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/nant/nant-0.85-bin.tar.gz

Untar it

create a nant file with nano

<user>

now paste in the following into nano

<user>

and now press ctrl+x and type "y" then enter to save

now set the nant file to executable

<user>

now lets test that nant is working
type "cd ~" to go to your home folder
then type "nant"

you should see the following:
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Code:

NAnt 0.85 (Build 0.85.2478.0; release; 10/14/2006)
Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Gerry Shaw
http://nant.sourceforge.net

BUILD FAILED

Could not find a '*.build' file in '/home/nebadon'

For more information regarding the cause of the build failure, run the build again in debug mode.

Try 'nant -help' for more information

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you now have successfully installed nant and mono

now lets get some git!

enter the following commands (super user required)

wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/perl-Error-0.17008-1.el5.kb.noarch.rpm

wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/git-1.5.6.rc3-1.i386.rpm

wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/perl-Git-1.5.6.rc3-1.i386.rpm

wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/git-core-1.5.4.rc5-1.i386.rpm

rpm -ivh --force --nodeps perl-Error-0.17008-1.el5.kb.noarch.rpm

rpm -ivh --force --nodeps git-1.5.6.rc3-1.i386.rpm

rpm -ivh --force --nodeps perl-Git-1.5.6.rc3-1.i386.rpm

rpm -ivh --force --nodeps git-core-1.5.4.rc5-1.i386.rpm

now lets insure git is installed type:
git --version

you should see:
git version 1.5.4.rc5

and thats a wrap, your machine is now set to download and compile the opensimulator source code.

please report any issues with this process here.

Bri Hasp · **Joined:** Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:34 pm **Posts:** 105

A few minor items
re:
cd libgdiplus-140293
./configure --prefix=/home/bosco/bin/mono

Should cairo error out it is most likely from font find

solve by
yum -y install xorg-x11-fonts-truetype
or
yum install truetype

also check where your NAnt.exe resides and adjust
mine:
mono /home/<user>/bin/mono/nant-0.85/bin/NAnt.exe
==================================================
After going thru all this I note the TOTAL needed on Suse 11.1

Code:

zypper addrepo http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/download-stable/openSUSE_11.1 mono-stable
zypper refresh --repo mono-stable
zypper dist-upgrade --repo mono-stable

and thats a wrap, your machine is now set to download and compile the opensimulator source code and run

theboi Umarov · **Joined:** Fri Aug 14, 2009 5:36 pm **Posts:** 7

yes i also had to adjust mine to mono /home/user/bin/mono/nant-0.85/bin/NAnt.exe

The current files can be downloaded with

wget http://www.hostnix.co.uk/osgrid/mono.tar.bz2

wget http://www.hostnix.co.uk/osgrid/libgdiplus.tar.bz2

with the cairo issue i used :

Code:

yum install cairo-devel

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