INstallation of Mono project on MAC OS X v10.4 Tiger

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INstallation of Mono project on MAC OS X v10.4 Tiger

HI Team,
I'm new into the world of MAC OS. But have interest for MAC other than windows. We have a requirement to run C#.net 2.0 application in MAC OS X 10.4 Tiger. For this we have adopted Mono project. After browsing thru the website www.mono-project.com/downloads we found the mono installable package of extension ".dmg". Do we need to download this and install the same.

What generally will be the installation procedure of s/w on Mac and how these can be uninstalled?

Thanks in advance.
Regards,
B. Ravi Kiran.

Mac OS X (10.4)

Posted on Dec 5, 2007 10:43 PM

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PsychoH13

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Dec 6, 2007 4:42 AM in response to bhRavi

Welcome to Apple discussions.

On Mac OS X, installation are quiet simple, the .dmg file you can download on that website is the standard disk image on Mac OS X, you open it and it mount a virtual disk on the desktop. Sometimes you will have to agree to a license before the disk actually mounts (it's not the case here).
In the virtual disk you may have one of those two possibilities :
- You can have a .app file or a folder containing the app, in that case (and it's generally written in the window) you just have to drag the folder/app on your hard disk to install it.

- Or you can have a .pkg/.mpkg file, it's an installer package, you just double-click on it to launch the Installer app, you follow the instructions agreeing the licenses, entering your password to install the app and then the install will begin. For the mono project you have that solution. here it will just install the framework Mono.framework into the folder /Library/Frameworks.

After installing you'll should be able to use any Mono compatible applications, well hopefully, but I can't guaranty you anything. I would rather saying that trying to make a C#.NET app to work on a Macintosh is counter-nature if you don't use an actual Windows (using BootCamp or virtualization apps like Parallel or VMWare), especially because Mono didn't port the whole .Net framework (I think it misses WinForms for instance).

However, if you actually need to make that app work on Mac OS X \ sight than it'll be the only solution.

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etresoft

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Dec 6, 2007 6:51 AM in response to bhRavi

bhRavi wrote:
What generally will be the installation procedure of s/w on Mac and how these can be uninstalled?

I don't know anything about Mono on the Mac. But there is an active thread right now about MacOS X installers. I will save you a bit of time. It isn't good. MacOS X is ten years behind Windows when it comes to installers. The offically recommended installation procedure is in flux. It just changed again. Now Apple recommends using their PackageMaker for installing software. Good luck with that. And no, we don't do uninstallers. We pretty much have to reinstall the OS from scratch.

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