Installing mono From Trunk (.Net 4.0 Support)

[markus101]

Hi all,

I was recently working on getting SABSync to work on Linux, but as I've moved to the .Net 4.0 framework a little more effort than simply booting up Ubuntu and running it was required. So here are the steps I followed to get it up and running, paths are related to my system, so you may need to make changes for it to work on your system.

All commands are run through Terminal, in case that wasn't obvious on Ubuntu 10.04 this was under: Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

First and foremost, to compile mono from the svn source you need at least mono 2.4 installed, check by running:

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mono --version

If you're running a version lower than 2.4 you will need to update (Ubuntu 10.04 shipped with 2.4.4, though 2.6.x is available)

My username for Ubuntu was "user" and I put everything in the Downloads folder, but you can place it anywhere you wish (or substitute your username in place of "user"):

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/home/user/Downloads

Download the required tools to compile mono from source (command should be on a single line):

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sudo apt-get install build-essential automake libtool gettext mono-devel mono-1.0-devel subversion libpng-dev libtiff-dev libgif-dev libjpeg-dev libexif-dev autoconf automake bison flex libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev

Create a new folder for the mono source:

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mkdir /home/user/Downloads/monosvn

Change Directory (cd) into the monosvn folder:

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cd /home/user/Downloads/monosvn

Use svn to download the files (this will take a few mins):

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svn co svn://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/mcs 
svn co svn://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/mono 
svn co svn://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/gtk-sharp
svn co http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/libgdiplus

Determine what --prefix should be equal to, first cd to the root of your system and then you will use find to find a folder specific to mono:

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cd /
find -name compat-1.0

In my case the result is: /usr/lib/mon/compat-1.0 so my prefix is /usr (everything preceeding /lib)
The example from the mono site is: /usr/local

Change Directory (cd) to the mono folder from your svn check out:

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cd mono

Configure mono (with support for 4.0):

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./autogen.sh --with-profile4=yes --prefix=/usr

Once configured you need to run make (this will take a long time, depending on your system):

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make

Now you need to install mono:

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sudo make install

Now you can run SABSync or any other .Net application requiring v4.0 of the .Net Framework!

Specific to SABSync:

I have SABSync.exe on my system located at:

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/home/user/Downloads/SABSync

So I cd to the directory like so:

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cd /home/user/Downloads/SABSync

And run it by:

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mono ./SABSync.exe

I also used chmod SABSync.exe to have Execute priviledges:

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chmod +x SABSync.exe

And now can run it from /home/user/Downloads/SABSync:

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./SABSync.exe

Or from anywhere on my system by Symlinking SABSync and RSS.NET.dll to directories in the path variable:

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ln -s /home/user/Downloads/SABSync/SABSync.exe /usr/bin
ln -s /home/user/Downloads/SABSync/RSS.NET.dll /usr/lib

So now I can run SABSync.exe from any folder by simply running:

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SABSync.exe

I hope this helps someone, please let me know if I can help in some way, by no means am I great with Linux, but I do manage.

Happy Downloading,

Markus