What the best setup latest Mono + MonoDevelop on Ubuntu 9.04?

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Samnang picture Samnang · May 29, 2009 · Viewed 8.7k times · Source

I start using Ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop. What I really want is to be able to write my C# projects on Ubuntu, including unit testing. Could anyone guide me how to setup it?

Answer

Mikayla Hutchinson picture Mikayla Hutchinson · Jun 4, 2009

In addition to the basic packages Matthew suggested, you'll also want the monodevelop-nunit package, which allows you to run and debug unit tests from within the IDE. For the debugger, you'll want monodevelop-debugger-mdb. You probably also want monodevelop-versioncontrol for SVN support, mono-xsp2 for running ASP.NET apps, and monodoc-browser for the docs viewer.

Maybe you're best off just installing all of the packages 'suggested' by the MonoDevelop package -- I believe the Ubuntu package manager has a way to do this easily from its GUI.

Beware that Ubuntu splits up Mono into many, many small packages, so if something's missing, use the apt-file tool or similar to find which package you need to install.

Ubuntu doesn't have Mono 2.4 packages yet; if you require 100% up-to-date packages, your best bet is to use openSUSE. The only way to get 2.4 on Ubuntu right now is to build from source -- and if you decide to do that, please read How not to break Mono installations first.

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