I've recently read that Mono 3.0 has been released with a C# 5 compiler and support for MVC 4 here:
http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_3.0
and
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Oct-22.html
For the life of me I cannot work out where to get it from as a package for Linux or even Windows.
This page seems to suggest it's still in Beta:
http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html
I've tried doing a apt-get install mono-complete
on Ubuntu 12.10 but it's installed 2.10.8.1.
I've tried installing MonoDevelop 3 on my Windows machine and that's only presented me with MVC 3 projects and appears to be using the .NET framework.
I'm entirely new to Mono and I've Googled everything possible to try and see how this works but am baffled. I'd love to get this working on Linux if possible and try some stuff out.
Can someone shed some light on this or do I need to be looking at building this from source?
Mono is a platform for developing and running cross-platform applications based on the ECMA/ISO Standards. It is a free and open-source implementation of Microsoft's . NET framework. This article provides information on how to install Mono on Debian 10.
Mono is Microsoft's . NET compatible and based on EMCS. Mono can be installed on Linux Mint 20 from the synaptic package manager, command line, and mono official repositories.
Here is the complete guide for installing mono 3.0.1
For Beginners who don't know how to get the new Mono 3.0.1 version on Ubuntu 12.04 (Because i'm a beginner and i've been working on this for 3 days before making it work)
Getting root access to install and configure Mono 3.0.1
sudo -s ***type your root password***
Install vim editor
apt-get install vim
Install apache2
apt-get install apache2
Install tools for compiling mono
apt-get install autoconf automake libtool g++ gettext libglib2.0-dev libpng12-dev libfontconfig1-dev apt-get install mono-gmcs apt-get install git
Install apache2-threaded-dev (needed for compiling mod_mono)*
apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev
We will return to apache2 configuration later
Making the structure we need for getting the source code
cd /opt mkdir mono-3.0
Move into that new folder before getting the source code
cd /opt/mono-3.0
Getting the source code from GitHub
git clone git://github.com/mono/mono.git git clone git://github.com/mono/xsp.git git clone git://github.com/mono/libgdiplus.git git clone git://github.com/mono/mod_mono.git
Compile libgdiplus
cd /opt/mono-3.0/libgdiplus ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr (the prefix is very important for Ubuntu 12.04) make make install
Compile mono
cd /opt/mono-3.0/mono/ make clean ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr (the prefix is very important for Ubuntu 12.04) make make install
Compile xsp
cd /opt/mono-3.0/xsp ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr (the prefix is very important for Ubuntu 12.04) make make install
Compile mod_mono
cd /opt/mono-3.0/mod_mono ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr (the prefix is very important for Ubuntu 12.04) make make install
After the installation of mod_mono, the file mod_mono.conf *as been added to your apache2 folder(/etc/apache2)*
Configuring apache2
Configure the default site of apache ### (optional*)**
vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/default Modify the line "DocumentRoot /var/www" by "DocumentRoot /var/www/YourFolder" (YourFolder is the folder where you publishing your website!)
Configure the rights to YourFolder (optional*)**
cd /var/www/YourFolder sudo chown -R root:www-data . sudo chmod -R 774 . sudo usermod -a -G www-data <yourusername>
Adding the mod_mono include in apache2.conf
vim /etc/apache2/apache2.conf Add "Include /etc/apache2/mod_mono.conf" at the end of the file (without quotes!)
Adding the pointer to ASP .NET 4.0 in mod_mono.conf
vim /etc/apache2/mod_mono.conf Add "MonoServerPath /usr/bin/mod-mono-server4" (without quotes!) under the "If Modules condition"
Restart the apache2 server /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Mono 3.x is too bleeding edge for Ubuntu 12.10. Grab preview packages from directhex's PPA this way (this will install 3.2.1):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:directhex/monoxide
(If you use Ubuntu saucy 13.10, after adding the repository you need to edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/directhex-monoxide-saucy.list
and replace the word saucy with raring)
Then, after that:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
This will also get you MonoDevelop 4.x if you had monodevelop installed before.
NOTE: directhex is not some random guy that created a PPA, he's part of the Debian/Ubuntu maintainer team of all the Mono and Mono-based packages. So using this is the most official way to upgrade your infrastructure.
And for the debian users out there: mono 3.0.6 and MonoDevelop 4.0.x is already available in debian testing. So what I recommend to get this is:
sudo apt-get purge mono-runtime
(after doing this, resist the temptation to do an sudo apt-get autoremove
or you will break your system, something which I reported as a bug here)./etc/apt/sources.list
, locate the first line that mentions the main
source, and rename the word jessie
to sid
.sudo apt-get update
.sudo apt-get install monodevelop
, which will pull mono as a dependency too.This way you have a more or less modern distro (as opposed to debian stable), plus very very modern mono packages (the bleeding edge versions for Mono are normally pretty stable).
F# users: Mono 3.0.6 has a bug that prevents this language to work in this version, please use Mono 3.2.x instead.
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