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Mono for Debian
Official Packages
The following official versions are available in the standard Debian repositories:
| Debian Lenny (5.0): | 1.9.1 |
| Debian Squeeze (6.0): | 2.6.7 |
| Debian Wheezy (testing): | 2.10.8.1 |
| Debian Sid (unstable): | 2.10.8.1 |
Dependencies are automatically tracked for applications in the archive such as Tomboy and F-Spot.
To compile your own software, install mono-2.0-devel on Lenny (5.0).
To compile your own software, install mono-devel on Squeeze (6.0), Wheezy (testing), Sid (unstable), or Experimental.
For a complete Mono, install mono-complete on Squeeze (6.0), Wheezy (testing), Sid (unstable), or Experimental.
Backport Packages
Debian Lenny (5.0)
Users of Debian 5.0 (Lenny) can install Mono 2.6.7 by using apt-get / aptitude from the Debian Backports repository.
Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports main
Now update the APT database and install mono-complete from that repository:
aptitude update aptitude -t lenny-backports install mono-complete
Unofficial Packages
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 /
Further Links
- The Debian Mono Group can be contacted via IRC: [1]
- The Debian Mono Group can be contacted via their mailing list, pkg-mono-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org - general questions relating to Mono on Debian should go to the end-user mailing list debian-cli@lists.debian.org
- The Debian Mono Group has a website on Alioth