Building MonoDevelop on LMDE

posted on 19 Nov 2012 | linux

I had a fair bit of trouble installing MonoDevelop on my LMDE machine the first time around. As I write this, the current version is 3.0.5 (commit 5542f6c0aa)

Warning: This goes against Mono best practices; if you want do be safe with your system, you should do this in a parallel mono environment. By building on top of your main environment, you risk breaking Mono on your machine. If you want to know more about setting up a parallel environment, read this.

  1. Install some prereqs

    sudo apt-get install git autoconf automake mono-devel mono-gmcs libmono-addins-cil-dev libmono-addins-gui-cil-dev libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil libmono-addins-msbuild-cil-dev libmono-addins-msbuild0.2-cil libmono-addins0.2-cil mono-addins-utils libglade2-dev gtk-sharp2 gnome-sharp2

  2. Get the source

    git clone git://github.com/mono/monodevelop.git
git submodule init
git submodule update

  3. Configure the build - I built main, MonoDevelop.Database and MonoDevelop.Debugger.Gdb; that is, options 1, 4, and 5. Other packages may have prerequisites not outlined here.

    ./configure

  4. Build the code

    make

  5. Install the built binaries

    sudo make install
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