NUnit assembly is not picked up by monodevelop

[Stefan Tauner]

nothing NUnit-related does show up in the references dialog although i have everything remotely related installed.
if i add the assembly by hand it works correctly.
the nunit addin works correctly afaik (i.e. the window is there and i can launch test runs).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: monodevelop-nunit 2.8.6.3+dfsg-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 19 00:58:39 2012
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: monodevelop
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-25 (24 days ago)

[Julian Taylor (jtaylor)]

are you sure you have libnunit-cil-dev installed?

[Stefan Tauner (stefanct)]

yes:

dpkg -l *nunit*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============================================================-==============================================================-============================================================================================================================================
un libmono-nunit2.2-cil <none> (no description available)
un libmono-nunit2.4-cil <none> (no description available)
un libnunit-cil <none> (no description available)
ii libnunit-cil-dev 2.5.10.11092+dfsg-3 Unit test framework for CLI
ii libnunit-doc 2.5.10.11092+dfsg-3 Unit test framework for CLI
un libnunit2.2.6-cil <none> (no description available)
un libnunit2.4-cil <none> (no description available)
ii libnunit2.5-cil 2.5.10.11092+dfsg-3 Unit test framework for CLI
ii monodevelop-nunit 2.8.6.3+dfsg-2 NUnit plugin for MonoDevelop
ii monodoc-nunit-manual 2.5.10.11092+dfsg-3 compiled XML documentation for NUnit
ii nunit 2.5.10.11092+dfsg-3 Unit test framework for CLI
ii nunit-console 2.5.10.11092+dfsg-3 Unit test framework for CLI
ii nunit-gui 2.5.10.11092+dfsg-3 Unit test framework for CLI

[Julian Taylor (jtaylor)]

can you remove the old nunit 2.4 and 2.2 package and see if it fixes the issue?

[Julian Taylor (jtaylor)]

sorry read the output wrong they where removed, you could try purging them, though I don't think that will help.

I can't reproduce the issue on my machine.

[Stefan Tauner (stefanct)]

afaik un (unknown, no errors) indicates that they were purged.
unpurged packages (i.e. those with left over config files) are rc (remove(d)/conf-files).

nevertheless i have purged them with aptitude to no avail. how does monodevelop determine the available references? is there another similar package that does provide assemblies? i could test if the basic mechanism works with that then...

do you notice any differences between your test machine and mine?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Julian Taylor (jtaylor)]

to my knowledge monodevelop uses pkg-config to find references.

for nunit two equal ones are provided one from libmono-cil-dev and one from libnunit-cil-dev (one of them should probably be removed, though that does not cause the issue, only duplicate display):
libmono-cil-dev: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/mono-nunit.pc
libnunit-cil-dev: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/nunit.pc

[Daniel Wischolel (other-wischolek)]

I had exactly the same problem until I found this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1939485

It appears NUnit is not displayed in projects targetting .NET 2.0. Changing the target framework to .NET 4.0 made NUnit available for me again.