Unable to run .net app with Mono - mscorlib.dll not found (version mismatch?)

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Warpin picture Warpin · May 8, 2012 · Viewed 63.2k times · Source

I have a simple .net command line tool written and compiled under Windows, using .net 3.5SP1. I would like to run it on Linux using Mono.

I am using Ubuntu 12.04, and installed Mono Runtime using the Ubuntu software center. If I try to start my app in the terminal by doing:

mono MyApp.exe

I get the error:

The assembly mscorlib.dll was not found or could not be loaded. It should have been installed in the 'usr/lib/mono/2.0/mscorlib.dll'.

If I navigate to that location, I see that it does not exist. However, there is usr/lib/mono/4.0/mscorlib.dll (and some more DLLs in the same folder).

So seemingly there is a version mismatch.

[in case it matters, mono -V shows Mono JIT compiler version 2.10.8.1 (Debia 2.10.8.1-1ubuntu2) ]

Answer

Warpin picture Warpin · May 8, 2012

I got it to work by installing mono-complete:

sudo apt-get install mono-complete

After that, I had folders 2.0, 3.5, 4.0 and more under usr/lib/mono

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