Investigate building Mono on ARC

barik commented 9 years ago

ARC has ~ 36 TB of storage for processing spreadsheets, but does not have Mono installed. Likely, Mono will need to be compiled from source, which may be non-trivial.

http://www.mono-project.com/

kjlubick commented 9 years ago

Looking at this this afternoon

kjlubick commented 9 years ago

Because "mono requires mono to build", I couldn't get the 3.10 (latest) version working, so I found http://www.neophyte.me.uk/2010/10/howto-install-mono-2-8-on-centos-5-5/ which worked. Luckily, 2.8.2 is perfectly happy being installed despite having outdated versions of glib and tar and other things on arc.

wget "http://download.mono-project.com/sources/mono/mono-2.8.2.tar.bz2"
tar xf mono-2.8.2.tar.bz2     //this takes a minute or so.  Do xvf for verbose
cd mono-2.8.2
./configure --prefix=/home/kjlubick/opt    //takes a few minutes
make                                       //takes 15-20 minutes
make install                               //takes a few minutes

kjlubick commented 9 years ago

Even with 2.8.2 installed, I cannot get 3.10 to install because I get this same error as before:

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Hopefully 2.X will be sufficient.

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