Installing Mono 1.9 on CentOS 5
March 26th, 2008 | by Gary |MonoDevelop was recently released and I thought to try it on my CentOS 5 workstation… According to the Mono web site the prefered method for installing Mono on RedHat is to use yum. Once yum is installed, putting a mono.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d will allow you to install mono and related packages.
BUT this is for RHEL 4 not RHEL 5 (and therefore CentOS 5)… If you try it you will get dependency errors. For CentOS 5 the best solution is to add the following mono.repo file to your /etc/yum.repos.d
[Mono]
name=Mono Stack (RHEL_5)
type=rpm-md
baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono/RHEL_5/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono/RHEL_5/repodata/repomd.xml.key
enabled=1
It works great!
I found the file at: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono/RHEL_5/
Gary
By Cliffra on May 9, 2008
Thankyou Gary, 2 days of frustration ended with a simple answer!
By Brian on Jul 17, 2008
You have no idea how useful this was. I worked off and on for a week trying to get Mono installed from the RHEL4 repo file. Thanks.
By Niel on Aug 17, 2008
ditto that!