HowTo: Install Monodevelop 2 from SVN on Ubuntu 8.10 x64

Update: Using mono from the PPA gives a mess, some dll’s don’t work, so I recommend compiling it all from source.

I really like C# and also love Ubuntu. Fortunately for me there is a nice IDE available for Mono called MonoDevelop. In this tutorial I’ll show how to install the svn version of it on Ubuntu 8.10 64bit. Well.. basically it’s more a reference for myself, so it’s not that clean and understandable. 🙂

Installing Mono 2.x

First of all we need a updated version of mono, since the one shipping with Ubuntu is out of date. We don’t need to compile anything since there is a nice and easy PPA available.

• Create a new file “mono.list” in /etc/sources.list.d/ with the following contents:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mono-ubuntu/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mono-ubuntu/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

• Update the apt-cache and install the new mono.

“sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade”

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/mcs1 /bin/mcs
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gmcs2 /bin/gmcs

That should do it for Mono.

Installing MonoDevelop from SVN

sudo apt-get build-dep monodevelop

sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential automake1.9 libgecko2.0-cil libmysql5.0-cil mono-debugger nunit-console2 libncurses5-dev

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nunit-console /usr/bin/nunit-console2

compile & install mono-debugger from http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono-debugger/mono-debugger-2.2.tar.bz2

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svn co -r 127196 svn://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/monodevelop
or
svn co svn://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/monodevelop

cd monodevelop

./configure

select gecko, asp.net , database, profiling, codeanalysis, debugger, java, NOT boo, since it crashes with this revision.

make

sudo make install