How to install gcc and mono on Linux

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What are gcc and Mono

gcc is a compiler system produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages. mono provides a .NET-compatible set of tools in Linux, including a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime.

Ubuntu

We need to install three packages, which are all available for ubuntu distributions after 8.10 (inclusive): mono-gmcs, libmono-system-runtime2.0-cil and gcc. But for the package "libmono-posix2.0-cil" in Ubuntu 9.04, it is included in a larger package called "libmono2.0-cil" in Ubuntu 8.10. So this leads to slight difference between two distributions.

Ubuntu 9.04

sudo apt-get install gcc mono-gmcs libmono-system-runtime2.0-cil
sudo apt-get install libmono-posix2.0-cil

This installs mono version 2.0.1

Ubuntu 8.10

sudo apt-get install gcc mono-gmcs libmono-system-runtime2.0-cil
sudo apt-get install libmono2.0-cil

This installs mono version 1.9.1

Ubuntu 8.04 and previous versions

We recommend you to upgrade your OS. Otherwise, you need to download and install mono from source.

Debian

Debian 5.0

For basic Debian 5.0, we need to add a source repository in aptitude

su

This requires you to input your user password, and then do the following:

echo "deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get install gcc mono-gmcs libmono-system-runtime2.0-cil
exit

This installs mono version 1.9.1.

CentOS

CentOS 5.X

First, get gcc:

su -c "yum install gcc"

Second, to get mono version 1.9.1, you need to download a separate repo file, and then install from yum.

wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono/RHEL_5/Mono.repo
su -c "mv Mono.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/"
su -c "yum --enablerepo=Mono install mono-core mono-web"

This installs mono version 1.9.1.

OpenSUSE

OpenSUSE 11.X KDE

zypper install gcc mono-core mono-web

This installs gcc and mono version 1.9.1

OpenSUSE 10.3 KDE and previous versions

You can install gcc from yum:

sudo zypper install gcc

You need to download and install mono from source.

Download and install mono from source

This has some dependencies bison, glib2-devel

If you have any problem in installing mono in above ways, you can install mono by downloading and installing from source. This process takes some time to complete:

wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono/mono-2.2.tar.bz2
tar jvxf mono-2.2.tar.bz2
cd mono-2.2/
./configure
make
su -c "make install"
su -c "echo /usr/local/lib >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/mono.conf"
su -c "ldconfig"

This installs mono version 2.2.