Instructions for installing a Tomboy Windows release
Upgrading
If you upgrade to a version of Tomboy before 1.3.2:
- Uninstall Tomboy manually first.
- Continue with step 4 of the Installation instructions.
Versions of Tomboy starting with (and including) 1.3.2 support standard upgrade installations.
Installation
Make sure you have at least .NET 3.5 installed (this should be included by default in Vista and Windows 7, but may require an additional install for Windows XP)
Install mono-project's Gtk# for .NET 2.12.10 or newer.
- Restart
Run the Tomboy installer 1.0.0 or newer.
- Enjoy!
Importing notes from Linux (optional)
(Please note that this is the suggested way to import if you don't use synchronization of notes. If you use synchronization and copy notes between computers, the synchronization server will get confused about what notes were changed where, so don't copy notes around, just use the synchronization plugin to export/import between machines.)
On your Linux box, copy all of the *.note files out your notes directory (see Tomboy/Directories).
- On your Windows box, quit Tomboy.
On your Windows box, copy all the *.note files from Linux into your notes directory (see Tomboy/Directories).
Known bugs
See the full list of bugs reported against Tomboy on Windows
If Tomboy crashes on startup, and you're sure you installed gtk-sharp correctly, you are probably experiencing this bug, which is fixed in Tomboy 0.15.1. Please make sure you are using the latest version of Tomboy, and let us know if the problems continue. Thanks!
Building the code yourself
We've written a guide for this at Tomboy/Building/Windows.