Installation guide for Novel’s Mono,Mono-develop,Xsp2 Server in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

In this article i will explaining how to install Novel’s Mono,Mono-develop IDE for .net applications in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and Mysql Configuration for Mono in Ubuntu 9.10 .For people who are new to Mono here is quick introduction

Mono is an open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET developed by Novel Corporation.

Mono-develop is an opensource C# and .net Integrated development environment for Linux .
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Installing Mono
Step 1 : From the terminal install the following command as root user . This is will install all the dependencies files for installing Mono on ubuntu 9.10 .
mono,mono-gmcs,mono-gac,mono-utils will be installed .

sudo apt-get install mono-2.0-devel

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Step 2 : Once Step 1 is completed inorder to confirm whether mono has been installed or not on your system type the following command in your terminal .

 $ mono

following will be the output , if get this output mono is successfully installed on your Ubuntu 9.10

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Installing Mono-develop

Step 1:  From the terminal type the following command  to install Mono-develop IDE .

$sudo apt-get install monodevelop monodoc-browser monodevelop-nunit monodevelop-versioncontrol

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Step 2:   After the installation , In order to run the Mono-develop IDE which will be located in

Applications->Programming->MonoDevelop

click on it
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Installing Xsp2 Server

Step1 : In order to run ASP.net application you need to install Mono-Xsp2 server which is available in the Ubuntu Karmic repository ,

Go to Synaptic Manager and query the search mono-xsp2 . Here is the Snapshot of the same

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Step 2 : In order to start and test the server through the terminal , type the following command .

 $xsp2

you will get the following response from the server after running it

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In my upcoming posts i will be explaining how to Create a ASP.net project on Mono and database connectivity with Asp.net and Configuring Mysql with Mono-develop .

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