Installing latest mono on Centos 6 - mono

Question

I am new to Linux (literally new- used it a couple of times) and I tried to install mono via yum; but I have gotten an outdated version that don't support .NET 4
How can I install mono 2.10.8?

Answer 1

Well, this is what I came up with and it worked for me:
based on this article:
$yum install bison gettext glib2 freetype fontconfig libpng libpng-devel libX11 libX11-devel glib2-devel libgdi* libexif glibc-devel urw-fonts java unzip gcc gcc-c++ automake autoconf libtool make bzip2 wget
$cd /usr/local/src
$wget http://download.mono-project.com/sources/mono/mono-3.0.1.tar.bz2
$tar jxf mono-3.0.1.tar.bz2
$cd mono-3.0.1
$./configure --prefix=/opt/mono
$make && make install
Then I downloaded the MonoDevelop IDE and compiled my program using Mono framework.
Then in Centos I called my program:
/opt/mono/bin/mono /root/MyFolder/MyProgramDir/myProgram.exe "$#"

Answer 2

Here's a Hello World Console Application on CentOS 6.5, compiled with the Mono "mcs" command and run with the Mono "mono" command. The first section was taken directly from Andrew's answer. +1 for Andrew! I added some additional steps because I am using the command line, not a Linux GUI.
yum install bison gettext glib2 freetype fontconfig libpng libpng-devel libX11 libX11-devel glib2-devel libgdi* libexif glibc-devel urw-fonts java unzip gcc gcc-c++ automake autoconf libtool make bzip2 wget
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://download.mono-project.com/sources/mono/mono-3.0.1.tar.bz2
tar jxf mono-3.0.1.tar.bz2
cd mono-3.0.1
./configure --prefix=/opt/mono
make && make install
Adding mono bin to "PATH" environment variable:
[root#localhost bin]# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin
[root#localhost bin]# export PATH=/opt/mono/bin:$PATH
[root#localhost bin]# echo $PATH
/opt/mono/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin
[root#localhost bin]#
Program.cs:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace HelloWorld
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("Hello Mars!");
}
}
}
Compile and Run:
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Compile *.sln file:

Answer 3

Under CentOS 5 it's probably best to compile Mono from source to get a recent version.
It just so happens I have already written a complete set of instructions for doing this here (If you'll pardon me linking to one of my own pages):
http://wiki.phonicuk.com/Installing-Mono-in-CentOS-5-x.ashx
Edit:
The above link is dead, best instructions are now at http://www.mono-project.com/docs/compiling-mono/compiling-from-git/

Answer 4

Mono packaging has always been in need of Love in the Fedora/RedHat world, so go figure if you're using CentOS.
Mono's Download page lists OpenSUSE, Debian and Ubuntu: http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html
I would use one of those options instead if you want to do something serious, otherwise you're on your own.
(Novell used to offer pre-built packages from CentOS here, but all links there seem broken now. Furthermore, these seemed to be the "enterprisey" version, and anyway if you're going CentOS instead of RH you're already avoiding that sub-world I'm guessing...)