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:
[code]apt-get purge mono-*[/code]
Install some dependencies
[code]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[/code]
Create a temp directory for downloading mono files
[code]cd /root
mkdir -p install/mono[/code]
Get and install latest libgdiplus:
[code]git clone https://github.com/mono/libgdiplus.git
cd libgdiplus
./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr
make
make install[/code]
Get and install lates Mono:
[code]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
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Get and install latest XSP 3.x
[code]cd /root/install/mono
git clone git://github.com/mono/xsp.git
cd xsp
./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr
make
make install
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Test the installation
You should test if the installation was a success:
Check if mono was installed:
[code]which mono[/code]
Check the version of mono
[code]mono –version[/code]
Check the version of fastcgi
[code]fastcgi-server-mono4 /version[/code]
Hope you have successfully installed mono on your Ubuntu machine!
