Update Mono on Ubuntu

This page is intended to give detailed instructions for updating (downloading and compiling) MONO on Ubuntu. Most of the information has been provided by DEVARTHUR in his blob site.

These directions have been generalised where appropriate in an attempt to make them future proof.

Firstly you need to make sure you have all the prerequisites which are: - autoconf - build-essential - binfmt-support - bison - gawk - gettext - libglib2.0-dev - mono-common - pkg-config - swig

You can use your favourite package manager (aptitude, apt-get, Synaptic, etc.) to do this e.g.:

apt-get install autoconf build-essential binfmt-support bison gawk gettext libglib2.0-dev pkg-config swig

Next you need to download the appropriate version of Mono sources. These are held by Novell in .tar.bz2 format. To see all available releases just type the following into an Internet Browser:

http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono

To download the source code first change directory to the receiving structure e.g.: cd software/mono

Now get the sources:

wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono/mono-release.tar.bz2

Where release is the desired version, so to download version 2.4.2.3 this would read:

wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono/mono-2.4.2.3.tar.bz2