[Mono-list] Re: [Mono-devel-list] How hard is it to install Mono?

Jonathan Pryor jonpryor@vt.edu
Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:28:12 -0400


On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 14:48, Stacey Abshire wrote:
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> One other thing, and I really don't want to get flames on this, but it would be
> very cool, if you guys could work with the Linspire group to bring the mono
> runtime, and mono development tools to that linux platform.  I use it for my
> desktop at home, and I find that it is a great linux desktop.  No flames on the
> money for free software.  I think it would be nice to have mono in the
> Click-N-Run warehouse.  If I knew wnough to package it correctly for Linspire,
> I would do so, and add it myself, but I don't.

Linspire is a repackaged Debian.

Consequently, the easiest way to get Mono on Linspire is to add the
Debian Unstable repository, and add the "mono" package.  (Debian Testing
has Mono 0.30, which is ancient, while Debian Unstable has Mono 1.0.1,
which is the current stable release.)

The easiest way to add Debian Unstable to Linspire is to edit (IIRC)
/etc/apt/apt.conf.  Google should help here.

 - Jon