[Mono-list] Guide to installing Mono 2.4 on a clean Ubuntu 8.10 Server machine

[Jiří Zárevúcký]

Hello, very nice guide.

> 4) Build Mono:
>
> Type: cd ~
> Type: wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono/mono-2.4.tar.bz2
> Type: tar -xpjf mono-2.4.tar.bz2
>
> This will take a minute or so because it's a big file and you won't see
> anything on the screen because stuff isn't too chatty in the UNIX world.
>

You will probably want to add "v" switch to turn on verbose output. It
will then print name of every extracted file.