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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 /

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