Instructions for installing a Tomboy Windows release

Upgrading

1. Uninstall Tomboy. (we are working on fixing our installer to work better with upgrades)
2. Continue with step 3 of the Installation instructions.

Installation

1. Install Novell's gtk-sharp 2.12.8 or newer.

2. Restart

3. Run Tomboy installer 1.0.0 or newer.

4. Enjoy!

Importing notes from Linux (optional)

1. On your Linux box, copy all of the *.note files out your notes directory (see Tomboy/Directories).

2. On your Windows box, quit Tomboy.

3. 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.