Mono for Debian

Official Packages

The following official versions are available in the standard Debian repositories:

Dependencies are automatically tracked for applications in the archive such as Tomboy and F-Spot.

To compile your own software, install mono-devel on Etch (4.0), Squeeze (testing), Sid (unstable), or Experimental.

To compile your own software, install mono-2.0-devel on Lenny (5.0).

Users of Debian 4.0 (Etch) can install Mono 1.9.1 by using apt-get / aptitude from the Debian Backports (http://backports.org) repository.

Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main

Now update the APT database and install mono-devel from that repository:

aptitude update
aptitude -t etch-backports install mono-2.0-devel

Users of Debian 5.0 (Lenny) can install Mono 2.4.2.3 by using apt-get / aptitude from the Debian Backports (http://backports.org) repository.

Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main

Now update the APT database and install mono-devel from that repository:

aptitude update
aptitude -t lenny-backports install mono-devel

Users of Debian Unstable (Sid) can use this APT repository to install Mono and related packages that are not yet uploaded or accepted in Debian.

Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://debian.meebey.net/pkg-mono /

The Debian Mono team can be contacted via IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net/#debian-cli - for a web-based IRC client, try Mibbit (http://www.mibbit.com/networks/oftc/debian-cli.html)
The Debian Mono team can be contacted via their mailing list, pkg-mono-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-mono-devel) - general questions relating to Mono on Debian should go to the end-user mailing list debian-cli@lists.debian.org (http://lists.debian.org/debian-cli/)
The Debian Mono team has a website on Alioth (http://pkg-mono.alioth.debian.org/)