f-spot?

[jgionet]

has anybody been able to get f-spot running on FC3? I've been trying for 2 days now and I can't seem to be able to get it running. I've done some searches on this forum and haven't been able to fidn anything. f-spot depends on a ton of stuff such as mono. (???) I've tried isntalling that and still no go. Has anybody get this working through yum repos?

thanks

[jgionet]

ok.. I somehow got it compiled and installed after installing endless packages throughout the day.. oof!

ok so now when I type: f-spot from a terminal I'm getting:

** (/usr/local/lib/f-spot/f-spot.exe:31966): WARNING **: Could not find assembly gnome-sharp, references from /usr/local/lib/f-spot/f-spot.exe (assemblyref_index=5)
     Major/Minor: 1,0
     Build:       0,0
     Token:       35e10195dab3c99f
System error: No such file or directory

cannot open assembly /usr/local/lib/f-spot/f-spot.exe

I tried doing a google search on parts of that error message and I can't find anything that can help me.

Help!

thxs

[foolish]

f-spot requires the mono stuff, which isn't straight forward to install in Fedora Core.

What I did was that I got the Fedora Core 2 mono packages from www.go-mono.com and I installed those. Once I had them installed, I could compile my mono-application of choice (not f-spot, but the music player muine). It's a bit dirty and there might be some hoops in the installation of mono and the compiling, but once you have mono and gtk-sharp installed, if you run into trouble check with the f-spot developers on irc.gimp.org #mono

[BandC]

f-spot didn't work for me either (I had installed it through yum). I didn't know it needed mono but I already had the mono stuff installed through yum. I tried a few things and gave up on it. Now mono prevents me to update a couple of packages through yum. I may have to uninstall it.

[jgionet]

unbelievable how much a pain in the @$$ this is to installed.. I've tried everything known to man and I still can't get it working. I keep on getting some other stupid errors which I can't find anywhere on the web. I even tried using apt-get yesterday (for the first time) and it totally hosed my system. I have to re-install. It totally wiped out gnome, X and all my X applications (go figure). I wasn't a happy camper last night.
Does anybody know of an easy way to make this thing work or know something else I can use? I need something to replace my Windoze Adobe Photoshop Elements/Album with card reader support.

thxs
-JG

[ghaefb]

gThumb maybe ?

[vinci]

Originally Posted by jgionet

unbelievable how much a pain in the @$$ this is to installed.. I've tried everything known to man and I still can't get it working. I keep on getting some other stupid
thxs
-JG

The f-spot from dag is missing a dependency. Also install "mono-sqlite".

[staul]

it's mono-data-sqlite. but even i installed mono-complete with no success. what's wrong with f-spot!

[Bob D.]

If you install the sqlite-devel package f-spot will start working like a champ.

The problem is explained in this Bugzilla entry: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156377. The short version (if I'm understanding this correctly) is there is a symlink missing. I tried to follow the instructions in the Bugzilla info to create the link but I was never successful.

If you can figure it out, please post back. Otherwise, install the devel package (I used Synaptic and Dag's repo) and you'll be good to go.

Bob

[staul]

Thanks, Bob. Finally it works. I am not quite sure about what they are talking in Bugzilla. Anyway, sqlite-devel only has 320K, not a big problem of space hogging.

Furthermore, as a note for yum users, besides mono-data-sqlite, mono-data and mono-web are also required to make f-spot work.