How to install Mono on a server?

Question

I'd like to be able to build and run C# programs on my Ubuntu 10.10 server. How do I install Mono? "sudo apt-get install mono" doesn't work, says "Package mono is not available, but is referred to by another package".

Solution 1

Try this

sudo apt-get install mono-complete

Solution 2

The mono compiler package is mono-gmcs, if you need the entire mono stack, install the package mono-complete .

Solution 3

You can install only mono runtime. Try this:

sudo apt-get install mono-runtime

Comments

[jjxtra]

What version does this install? Latest stable?

[Asifa.K]

What's the difference between the complete mono stack and the compiler package?

[Zero3]

This might not be enough, though. My installation was missing necessary .dlls with this. For more information, see stackoverflow.com/questions/10490155/…

[Victoralm]

Does the "mono-complete" installs X11 with it !? Imo, I don't think this is the best choice on a server...