[Beds] Mono... (Dependency Hell...)

[Darren Parkinson]

Hello All,

I thought I would take a look at the wonderful world of mono, but have again 
seemingly ended up in yet another dependency nightmare. 

I have installed the basics of mono using yum and the mono.repo file as 
recommended on the website, now admittedly, I'm using FC4 and I sort of 
modified the file a bit so that it would look in the FC3 directory, but how 
different can it be (!)... This actually all seems to have worked fairly 
well...

I then thought that I would start by taking a look at some of the new wizzy 
mono applications that everyone keeps banging on about 
(beagle/tomboy/f-spot), so rather than head straight for beagle, I decided 
that I start with the (what would appear to be) easier f-spot application 
(!!!).

So, I downloaded the app and have run the ./configure script and this is 
where my problem lies... When I run the ./configure script, it complains 
that "Package gtkhtml-sharp-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path" 
and that I should "consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment 
variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can 
find them". 

Essentially it seems that I am missing the gtkhtml-sharp files, but on 
searching, I can see that they exist on my system. Incidentally I had the 
same message about libexif, but rectified this by putting a libexif.pc file 
in the /usr/lib/pkgconfig directory.

So my question (finally) is this : how is it that I have gtkhtml on my 
system, but the .pc file that pkgconfig is expecting doesn't appear anywhere 
on my system? How do I get around this?

If anyone can shed a bit of light on this and make things a little clearer, 
I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance for any assistance,

Regards,
Darren.
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