SunUO

Just a heads up for anyone looking to run SunUO on an Ubuntu Server setup, you will need to install the following packages (in addition to the ones listed in the original documentation) in order for Mono to run SunUO properly:

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apt-get install monodevelop mono-gmcs

After that, you should be good to go!

Actually, afaik, you shouldn't need either of those in order to build/run SunUO.

All monodevelop does is provide an IDE for creating .net apps on mono. Unless something's changed recently, you don't need monodevelop to build SunUO, and you certainly don't need it to run SunUO. And personally, I prefer more lightweight text editors for dealing with SunUO scripts (especially since SunUO does the compiling for me). Not only that, but there's NO reason I can see to have it installed on your server unless you're making your desktop/workstation double as a server (OK for a test server, I guess).

As for gmcs, afaik SunUO doesn't use any .NET 2.0 features, so you shouldn't need gmcs unless you're running scripts that use .NET 2.0 features.

If when you installed monodevelop and gmcs they pulled in other dependencies, and then something started working that wasn't, it was probably a dependency of monodevelop and/or gmcs that fixed it, not monodevelop and/or gmcs themselves. IIRC, monodevelop depends on gtk#, libgdiplus, and maybe cairo (libgdiplus is used in some cases by SunUO, iirc), and gmcs should probably also pull in regular mcs as well (and even if it doesn't, there's probably no harm in using it for SunUO).

--Arek