http://monodevelop.com/Download

on Ubuntu Hardy Heron though, it asks for these two files before it can install or compile any software – mtools and z7

(I’m not sure if they’re available online to download and place in the required folders manually; my Ubuntu machine isn’t online and automatically tries to get anything it doesn’t have in some automatic update type of way – which is a nightmare btw in trying to install graphics card drivers: why doesn’t it just let you load them manually (on the dekstop menu option) from any chosen media – why only from online?! Seems like a gaping omission when they include so many games and related built-in apps that rely on 3D acceleration to run at more than 2 fps)*

*the other way to install apps, via the command line, is also a bit wrong in that version of Ubuntu – there is some change to the run level settings, so even if you’re the root user it doesn’t let you install drivers unless you drop down to about level 3 (5 is usually the default)

Nobody seems to realise some linuxs are going the wrong way! Why have such complex or no access to normal computer things like installing as root, when there’s all kinds of automatic updates built in – it’s not secure anyway when there’s automatic download anything going on! Sure if you’re online and get your connection watched and you’re only a limited user then your installation is safer (as they’d only have access, initially anyway, to the account you are currently using) – but that account is likely to be where all your personal data is…

Add the following repository (using System/Administration/Software Sources):

deb http://debian.meebey.net/etch-backports /

The simply use open synaptic, search for monodevelop, and click apply.

(More details can be found on the mono site. they tested on gutsy, I tested on feisty, i imagine it works on hardy too and probably even edgy/dapper.)

http://www.mono-project.com/Ot....._packages:

./configure –prefix=`pkg-config –variable=prefix mono`

But rather should be this way:

./configure – prefix=`pkg-config – variable=prefix mono`

only because I tried it both ways and the second way was the charm. Coincidentally do not know if this is a big deal,
but upon installation through the terminal, I got this message in the terminal:

Note that ‘/share’ is not in the search path
set by the XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_DATA_DIRS
environment variables, so applications may not
be able to find it until you set them. The
directories currently searched are:

- /root/.local/share
- /usr/local/share/
- /usr/share/
- /usr/share/gdm/

Anyways, I tried to see if I could find the latest version as you indicated through Synaptic and realized that the version that was posted in synaptic was older than the one that you indicate on your instruction so I decided to use yours.

Here is the end result on my end.

http://www.geocities.com/lionr.....evelop.jpg

like this :

./configure –prefix=`pkg–config –variable=prefix mono`

make

sudo make install

alien –scripts monodevelop_0.17-0.novell.noarch.rpm

when it finished:

dpkg -i monodevelop_0.17-0-all.deb