Mono 2.4 on Ubuntu

The Novell guys have pushed out another release of Mono, and I've just updated my VPS.

I'm glad to report that everything works great with BlogEngine.NET on Ubuntu. I've updated my instructions for installing Mono on Ubuntu to include the latest release.

If you haven't given Mono a go yet, what are you waiting for?

Published Tue, 31 Mar 2009 by Russell and filed under ASP.NET, BlogEngine.NET, Linux, Mono with tags ,

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David Smith
David Smith
Thu, 7 May 2009 #

I'm not having much luck with running mono on a fresh installation of kubuntu 9.04-amd64, even though it runs fine, with very little set-up problems on openSUSE 11.1 (perhaps unsurprisingly), and Mandriva 2009.1 on the same, multi-boot pc.

I suspect it's all in the config and I'm really hoping you (or anyone) can point me to a clean, simple and bullet-proof mono config tutorial that is known to work on Ubuntu 9.04 and its current packages. Preferably one that includes Virtual Hosting config, but maybe I can work that out for myself if I can just get it to serve asp from the default document root (/var/www).

I did try the mono-2.4 compilation in your tutorial (twice), and it seemed to go ok up to installing and checking xsp server. After that the compilation went ahead and finished, but reporting a vast slew of 'errors' all the while [non-critical, I guess, maybe?].

As it failed to serve my localhost asp web sites (which are served by suse and mandriva, as mentioned), I nuked it and went back to more conventional installations, trying apt-get, aptitude, and synaptic (with a system restore from partimage each time).

Each time the installation more or less went through, though it always hung on the mod-mono-server2 config step, then I attempt to set up the config but always the same results: either error messages (e.g. Server Error in '/' Application
Standard output has not been redirected or process has not been started.
Description: HTTP 500. Error processing request., or I get a save file dialogue when I try to hit the server.

What am I doing wrong?

Matthias
Matthias
Wed, 13 May 2009 #

Hello Russell,
thanks for that great instruction. It worked fine on my recently installed Ubuntu 9.04. Now I want to install Monodevelop. I tried to install it by using 'apt-get install monodevelop'. Installation was successful, but when I start Monodevelop there are several errors (e.g. The following assembly referenced from /usr/lib/monodevelop/bin/MonoDevelop.Core.dll could not be loaded:  Assembly:   Mono.Addins.Setup). What can I do to get it started? It would be great if you could help me.

Greetings
Matthias

Russell
Russell
Thu, 14 May 2009 #

Matthias: I haven't been able to get MonoDevelop installed in Ubuntu without major trouble. I do intend to get it working one day, and be sure that I will blog about when I do. Your best bet for now is going to be to try and compile it from source using the info available on the net. Good luck though!

Russell
Russell
Tue, 19 May 2009 #

David: I've just installed Ubuntu 9.04 in a virtual machine and followed my own instructions to install Mono 2.4. Everything worked perfectly as expected.

All I can say at this point is try it again and check your steps carefully. Otherwise please specify where you've deviated from the instructions so I'll have some more info to work from.

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I am a software developer / architect currently interested in combining .NET technologies with open-source operating systems. 

I am a member of the open-source BlogEngine.NET development team and focus mainly on ensuring Mono compatibility for the project.

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