Some weeks ago I had to install Mono 3.4 on Ubuntu. Sadly in Ubuntu repositories the Mono package is not up to date. In this HOW TO: Install Mono 3.4 on Ubuntu I will show you step by step how I did installed the latest version of Mono.
What is Mono?
As the official site of Mono-project.com describes: “An open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET”
Basically it make possible that C# and .NET programs can be run in any platform for example Ubuntu.
HOW TO Install Mono 3.4 on Ubuntu
I used some forums and sites as references:
- http://forums.osgrid.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4625
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13365158/installing-mono-3-x-3-0-x-and-or-3-2-x
First make sure you have NO mono in your machine:
apt-get purge mono-*
Install some dependencies
apt-get install libpng3 libpng3-dev libtool libtiff4 libtiff4-dev libexif12 libexif-dev libgif4 libgif-dev libpango1.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-dev bison automake autoconf make gcc gtk-sharp2 build-essential xorg-dev libfreetype6 libfontconfig libfontconfig-dev gettext libglib2.0-dev git libjpeg-dev libjpeg8-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev
Create a temp directory for downloading mono files
cd /root mkdir -p install/mono
Get and install latest libgdiplus:
git clone https://github.com/mono/libgdiplus.git cd libgdiplus ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr make make install
Get and install lates Mono:
cd /root/install/mono apt-get install mono-gmcs git clone git://github.com/mono/mono.git cd mono ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr make make install
Get and install latest XSP 3.x
cd /root/install/mono git clone <a href="git://github.com/mono/xsp.git" rel="nofollow">git://github.com/mono/xsp.git</a> cd xsp ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr make make install
Test the installation
You should test if the installation was a success:
Check if mono was installed:
which mono
Check the version of mono
mono --version
Check the version of fastcgi
fastcgi-server-mono4 /version
Hope you have successfully installed mono on your Ubuntu machine!
May 29, 2014
Thank you, I was having some problems with the installation. Now it works perfectly
June 12, 2014
Telskia I’m very happy I could help
July 7, 2014
Thanx man.
libtiff4 libtiff4-dev must be changed on libtiff5 libtiff5-dev for Ubuntu 14.04
July 7, 2014
To get exactly version 3.4 (not the latest build)
after commands
>git clone git://github.com/mono/mono.git
>cd mono
must be executed
>git checkout 954ed3c91edeb8e22e336d7e7c9ad1a83a779f61
July 21, 2014
Thank you blaze for your comment!
October 28, 2016
I get a “cmake not found” error when doing “./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr”, can you help me? :/