Compile Mono

[Tommy Trussell]

On 5/14/08, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Mario Vukelic
>  >  <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
>  >  > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 07:43 +0700, Gunawan wrote:
>  >  > > It is not difficult to use ubuntu or installling application.
>  >  > > But It will be rather tricky if we need to compile from the source.
>  >  > > Can someone help me how to compile and what dependent package need to
>  >  > > compile mono 1.9.0
>  >  >
>  >  > I don't understand - why _do you need to compile mono yourself?
>
>
> On 5/14/08, Jonathan Gunawan <jgun98.milis at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > because mono that comes with hardy is 1.2.6 and latest mono is 1.9.1
>  >  and I can't find deb file on packages.ubuntu.com
>
>
> go to http://www.mono-project.com/ and you will see that Debian
>  packages are available as "unsupported" downloads, NOT standard Debian
>  repositories. So apparently the 1.9.x versions of Mono have not made
>  it into Debian, which is where all Ubuntu Universe packages come from.

UPDATE -- I replied too fast. The 1.9.1 packages ARE in Debian
Testing. You might be able to help get them into whatever version of
Ubuntu you want to run by filing a Backports request.