Ubuntu

No, this entry has nothing to do with strange food.  I am doing some experimenting today with the Dogtail GUI test tool in order to evaluate its capablities for testing apps on Linux.  First off, documentation on dogtail is very hard to come by.  The API docs on the dogtail site are very old so avoid using them if you can.  I recommend the following series of articles instead:
 

I recently had a bit of an adventure trying to get the latest MonoDevelop installed. There are some undocumented dependencies that took me a while to figure out, so hopefully this will save someone some time:

1 - Build and install mono-addins

Get the package from http://monodevelop.com/Download

Then use the normal build and install method:
./configure
make
sudo make install

2 - Install the following packages using synaptic

These are required dependencies for building gtk-sharp WITH glade support.

libgnome2-dev
libgnomecanvas2-dev
libgnomeui-dev
libgnomeprint2.2-dev