Tip: vault.exe on Linux with System.Windows.Forms error

[tomt84]

This was originally going to be a support request but I fixed it myself, so here's a tip.

If you get this error:

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<vault>
<error>
The connection to the server failed: server cannot be contacted or uses a protocol that is not supported by this client. Could not load file or assembly 'System.Windows.Forms, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies.
</error>
<exception>
System.Exception: The connection to the server failed: server cannot be contacted or uses a protocol that is not supported by this client. Could not load file or assembly 'System.Windows.Forms, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies.
  at VaultCmdLineClient.VaultCmdLineClient.Login (Boolean bAllowAuto, Boolean bSaveSession) [0x00000] 
  at VaultCmdLineClient.VaultCmdLineClient.Login () [0x00000] 
  at VaultCmdLineClient.VaultCmdLineClient.ProcessCommandListRepositories () [0x00000] 
  at VaultCmdLineClient.VaultCmdLineClient.ProcessCommand (VaultCmdLineClient.Args curArg) [0x00000] 
</exception>
<result success="no" />
</vault>

then install the libmono-system-web1.0-cil package (on Ubuntu - similar idea for other distros, possibly different name).

I'd only installed the .NET 2.0 Winforms stuff because that's what I target with my own development, but vault.exe targets version 1 assemblies.

[Beth]

Thanks a bunch for the additional information.