c# - Linux: Mono installation and errors

Question

Over the past weeks I struggled to get a working Mono installation without success.

I have tried it on Debian6_x64, Debian7_x64 and Ubuntu_12.04_x64. I have installed it using the default mono-complete using apt-get, tried compiling it from GitHub and from alternative repositories. Either with Mono 2.x or 3.x, I followed several tutorials and nothing seems to work.

Unfortunately I don't have the error logs of past installs but at this moment my current situation is:

Ubuntu 12.04 x64


Mono JIT compiler version 3.4.0 (master/250756b Sun Mar  2 15:02:07 EST 2014)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
        TLS:           __thread
        SIGSEGV:       altstack
        Notifications: epoll
        Architecture:  x86
        Disabled:      none
        Misc:          softdebug
        LLVM:          supported, not enabled.
        GC:            sgen

I'm trying to run a c# program I compiled under windows and the error I get currently is:

user@host:/home/pck# mono Program.exe
The assembly mscorlib.dll was not found or could not be loaded.
It should have been installed in the `/usr/local/lib/mono/4.5/mscorlib.dll' directory.

I've been googling and nothing seems to work. I'd greatly appreciate any advice that could help.

Thanks!

Answer 1

The best thing to do nowadays is install Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 (LTS), which includes mono 3.2.8 in its default repositories (easy to install through apt-get).