Installing Mono on Ubuntu

[Charlatat]

Ok, I was having a heck of a time getting gui apps working after installing Mono 1.2.5.1. Neither GTK/GTK2 or WinForms worked correctly. After a long time of struggling with it, I finally got everything working with the help of https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MonoFromSource. GTK, GTK2 and WinForms work great now. However, to get things working I ended up installing a LOT of packages (the webpage was a bit outdated) . Too many, I'm sure. I'd like some help in trimming the list down, though. If you can lend a hand or offer some helpful tips, I'd appreciate it. Here's what I did:

1. Install Ubuntu 7.04
2. Enable all sources in /etc/apt/sources.list
3. Perform sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade
4. Restart
5. Perform sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
6. Restart
7. Go to http://go-mono.com/sources-stable/ and download these packages:
A. mono-1.2.5.1.tar.bz2
B. libgdiplus-1.2.5.tar.bz2
C. gtk-sharp-1.0.10.tar.gz
D. monodoc-1.2.5.zip
E. gecko-sharp-2.0-0.12.tar.gz
F. mono-debugger-0.50.tar.bz2
G. gtk-sharp-2.10.2.tar.bz2
H. gnome-sharp-2.16.0.tar.gz
8. Extract them all to a temp directory
9. Open up Synaptic Package Manager and install these packages (accept all dependecies):
A. build-essential
B. devscripts
C. dh-buildinfo
D. sbuild
E. pkg-config
F. libextutils-pkgconfig-perl
G. libgift-dev
H. libpthread-stubs0-dev
I. xserver-xorg-dev
J. bison
K. bison-doc
L. libcairo2-dev
M. libcairo2-doc
N. libcairo-directfb2
O. libcairo-directfb2-dev
P. libglib1.2
Q. libglib1.2-dbg
R. libglib1.2-dev
S. libglib2.0-0
T. libglib2.0-0-dbg
U. libglib2.0-cil
V. libglib2.0-data
W. libglib2.0-dev
X. libglib2.0-doc
Y. libungif4-dev
Z. libungif-bin
AA. libjpeg-progs
BB. libtiff4-dev
CC. libtiff-opengl
DD. libtiff-tools
EE. libtiffxx0c2
FF. libgnome-desktop-dev
GG. libgtk-html2-dev
HH. libgtkhtml3.14-dbg
II. libgtkhtml3.14-dev
JJ. libgtkhtml3.8-dev
KK. libgtkhtml3.8-15
LL. libgtkhtml3.8-dbg
MM. libgtkhtml3.8-dev
NN. libvte2.0-cil
OO. libvte-cil
PP. libvte-dev
QQ. libvte-doc
RR. librsvg2-bin
SS. librsvg2-dev
TT. libgail-gnome-dbg
UU. libgail-gnome-dev
VV. libgnome2-doc
WW. libgnomecanvas2-doc
XX. libgnome-cil
YY. libgnomedb2-4
ZZ. libgnome2-4-dbg
AAA. libgnomedb2-bin
BBB. libgnomedb2-dev
CCC. libgnomedb2-doc
DDD. libgnome-dev
EEE. libgnomevi-doc
FFF. libpanel-applet2-dev
GGG. libpanel-applet2-doc
HHH. gawk
III. gawk-doc
JJJ. exif
KKK. exiftags
LLL. exifrun
MMM. exifprobe
NNN. libexif
OOO. libexif-gtk-dev
PPP. libexif-gtk5
QQQ. libpango1.0-dbg
RRR. libpango1.0-doc
SSS. libsdl-pang1
TTT. libsdl-pango-dev
10. Configure/make libgdiplus-1.2.5:
A. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
B. make
C. sudo make install
11. sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf
A. Add /usr/local/lib
B. Add /usr/local
12. sudo ldconfig
13. Configure/make mono-1.2.5.1:
A. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-preview=yes
B. make
C. sudo make install
14. Run mono -V to verify mono version
15. Configure/make gtk-sharp-1.0.10:
A. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-preview=yes
B. make
C. sudo make install
16. Configure/make gtk-sharp-2.0.10:
A. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
B. make
C. sudo make install
17. Configure/make gnome-sharp-2.16.0:
A../configure --prefix=/usr/local
B. make
C. sudo make install
18. Configure/make gecko-sharp-2.0-0.12:
A../configure --prefix=/usr/local
B. make
C. sudo make install
19. Configure/make mono-debugger-0.50:
A../configure --prefix=/usr/local
B. make
C. sudo make install
20. Configure/make monodoc-1.2.5:
A../configure --prefix=/usr/local
B. make
C. sudo make install
21. sudo ldconfig (possibly restart too)
22. Be mindful of any errors that reference a particular mono folder (when launching an app) and add it to /etc/ld.so.conf and do a sudo ldconfig. I had to do this once, but not always.

[Charlatat]

*bump*

[bergetun]

Thank you very much for putting this on, I have spent days getting the winform working with mono 1.2.5 on ubuntu with no luck.

But I cant get past the compiling of libgdiplus .

Getting this error :


../src/.libs/libgdiplus.so: undefined reference to `png_set_expand_gray_1_2_4_to_8'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [testgdi] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bergetun/libgdiplus-1.2.5/tests'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bergetun/libgdiplus-1.2.5'
make: *** [all] Error 2




I think its kinda strange that there is no deb packages for Mono 1.2.5 on ubuntu .

[Charlatat]

1. try using Synaptic and installing libpng packages
2. try doing step #11 and #12
3. try compiling libgdiplus again

[posterboy]

Don't forget about apt-get build-dep package-name. That's a life-saver for those of us who need to compile stuff. I needed to re-compile beagle, in order to get t-bird support, and that command went and got all the mono stuff, and everything needed to do so.

[ENielsen]

Thank you very much for putting this on, I have spent days getting the winform working with mono 1.2.5 on ubuntu with no luck.

But I cant get past the compiling of libgdiplus .

Getting this error :


../src/.libs/libgdiplus.so: undefined reference to `png_set_expand_gray_1_2_4_to_8'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [testgdi] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bergetun/libgdiplus-1.2.5/tests'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bergetun/libgdiplus-1.2.5'
make: *** [all] Error 2




I think its kinda strange that there is no deb packages for Mono 1.2.5 on ubuntu .
I am having the same problem building on 6.06 LTS. It seems like this may be related to a problem with binutils. This is Bug 325511 in the Mono database:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=MONO82844

[agibby5]

seems like a lot of steps to get this thing to work. I just installed it from the package manager, and it worked except i didn't have the winforms designer. I hope that the installation for these 'add-ons' will become more streamlined soon. I'd like to dump windows asap! :)

[tgs1952]

I began installing mono this morning using synaptic. The install is hanging at configuring Apache = stuck there for over an hour. At what point should I cancel?

I am using Feisty on a ppc.