Nathan Bridgewater

Like the other scripts I’ve posted, this one is meant to be a barebones mono install with the exception of LibGDI, LibGTK, XSP, and ModMono. You can easily make it a web server or just compile simple CLI scripts in mono. Run “csharp” for an interactive shell.

NOTE: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Badgerports.org are now current w/ 2.10.8.1. This bash script is more useful when installing parallel Mono, when a new version is released and not yet published on badgerports, or if you simply want to compile it yourself from source. I highly recommend trying the latest Ubuntu or Badgerports first.

This version installs Mono 3.0.7

Install

mkdir mono-3.0
cd mono-3.0
wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/nathanb/iws-snippets/master/mono-install-scripts/ubuntu/install_mono-3.0.sh
chmod 755 install_mono-3.0.sh
./install_mono-3.0.sh

Take note that this will install to the suggested parallel environments path at: /opt/mono-3.0. Adjust your environment accordingly in either your virtual host config or your CLI environment before using it to run your Mono apps.

NOTE: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Badgerports.org are now current w/ 2.10.8.1. This bash script is more useful when installing parallel Mono, when a new version is released and not yet published on badgerports, or if you simply want to compile it yourself from source. I highly recommend trying the latest Ubuntu or Badgerports first.

Updated Sept 11, 2012 – Incremented Mono to 2.11.3 (from 2.11.0).

Install

This script is meant to be a barebones web server install. Feel free to tweak the script and add as many packages as you like to it.

mkdir mono-2.11
cd mono-2.11
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/nathanb/iws-snippets/raw/master/mono-install-scripts/ubuntu/install_mono-2.11.sh
chmod 755 install_mono-2.11.sh
./install_mono-2.11.sh

There is also a CentOS/Red Hat script in the GitHub repository.

Enjoy!

I’ve recently been getting pretty excited about Amazon EC2 once I realized you can setup a micro linux server for free to learn and test out their services. I know, a couple years behind the curve right? I’ve just never really looked into it. Now that I’m familiarizing myself with the whole cloud concept with Amazon, it’s really cool to think of small business growth potential in the web market without the restraint of building a heavy infrastructure upfront. I realize after reading some other articles that in the long run, it is probably more expensive than hosting your own solution. But as a startup, it still seems to me that it’s a pretty good deal at least for short term events or just taking their infrastructure out for a spin to test some ideas. Pay for what you use; that’s Amazon’s big pitch with their Amazon Web Services (AWS).

So if you want to play around with AWS for free, you have to roll Linux. If you want to host ASP.NET MVC3 on AWS Linux, there’s a few steps you need to take. For this post, I’ll talk about some of the AWS services that can get you started along with how to install and configure your environment for hosting ASP.NET MVC3 applications with Linux and Mono.

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NOTE: Badgerports.org is now current w/ 2.10.8.1. This bash script is more useful when installing parallel Mono, when a new version is released and not yet published on badgerports, or if you simply want to compile it yourself from source. I highly recommend trying Badgerports first.

Install

mkdir mono-2.10
cd mono-2.10
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/nathanb/iws-snippets/raw/master/mono-install-scripts/ubuntu/install_mono-2.10.sh
chmod 755 install_mono-2.10.sh
./install_mono-2.10.sh

Enjoy!

Update 12/30/2011 – Updated Mono 2.10.6 to 2.10.8.0

Update 10/16/2011 – Updated Mono 2.10.5 to 2.10.6

Update 8/31/2011 – Updated Mono 2.10.4 to 2.10.5

Update 8/11/2011 – Updated Mono 2.10.3 to 2.10.4 for minor update.

After @migueldeicaza announced MonoDevelop Beta 3 a few days ago, I updated my scripts to install the new version. I’ve also included an upgrade script for those of you who used my Beta 2 script. The upgrade will uninstall the three Beta 2 projects and then download, compile and install the three new ones. I’ve only tested this so far on Ubuntu Natty (11.04), so let me know here if you have any problems with other versions.

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Alright!  You asked for it, so here it is!  Here’s a bash script that will download, compile and install MonoDevelop. I can’t say it’s a perfect solution, but it does work and it’s relatively clean. The main difference between this install and platform packages is that it will install to a prefix using the parallel environment recommendations. So launching it requires a little environment setup, which the script will provide for you. Otherwise, it should work just the same.

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I just committed the script for 2.8.2. This was literally a text replacement of 2.8.1. However, this one seems to work with asp.net membership out of the box; so that’s good. Anyways you can find these scripts at github.com or use the bash sequence below.

I ran through these scripts on Ubuntu 10.10 and Fedora 14 fresh installs.  I would discourage setting your default environment path to use this version and stick to using it just for Asp.Net. You can set the MonoPath in your Apache virtual host config to use this one specifically.  It will install to /opt/mono-2.8.2

Comment if you have any questions or problems.

Ubuntu

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/nathanb/iws-snippets/raw/master/mono-install-scripts/ubuntu/install_mono-2.8.2.sh
chmod 755 install_mono-2.8.2.sh
./install_mono-2.8.2.sh

Fedora

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/nathanb/iws-snippets/raw/master/mono-install-scripts/fedora/install_mono-2.8.2.sh
chmod 755 install_mono-2.8.2.sh
./install_mono-2.8.2.sh

Update 1/30/2011

Be sure and set the environment variables in the virtual host config to use the correct prefix. This script will install to /opt/mono-2.8.2;  So modify the MonoSetEnv line in your virtual host config: 

MonoSetEnv appName MONO_IOMAP=all;LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mono-2.8.2/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH;PATH=/opt/mono-2.8.2/bin:$PATH

MONO_IOMAP=all is optional; but on by default usually. The important part is to include the other two so mod_mono knows how to find this 2.8.2 install.  Likewise, if you're running console or GUI apps w/ this version; you'll need to set your local environment to use the modified LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH as well. See http://www.mono-project.com/Parallel_Mono_Environments for more info. 

Update 2/20/2011

Mono 2.10 has been released and I added a new install script.

I’ve had a few requests to write a full walk-through installing Mono 2.8 w/ Asp.Net 4.0 since I posted an install script for Mono 2.8 on Ubuntu and Fedora.  So here it is! We’re going to be setting up a new server from scratch then installing just the basics of Mono 2.8 (Mono, GTK, GDI, XSP, & Mod_Mono). Then we’ll use that to setup a new Apache server with a basic Asp.Net 4.0 MVC2 application w/ MySql Membership.  That sounds like a lot, but it’s really very straight forward. So lets get started!

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I updated both my scripts for Ubuntu and Fedora to download and install the latest 2.8 Mono release.  I’ve also been playing with GTK lately (specifically Pixbufs) and so this script now includes the install for GTK-Sharp. Anyway, you can find the updated scripts on my GitHub snippets project.  Both Fedora and Ubuntu install scripts should succesfully install mod_mono, Xsp, mono core, GTK, and GDIplus at a minimum.

If you have problems running your apps that use the gdi-plus, it could be resolved with a refresh of the DllMap.  Enter "sudo ldconfig"  and then try to re-run your app. Checkout http://www.mono-project.com/DllNotFoundException for more details.

2/20/2011 Update

Mono 2.10 has been released. I added a new install script here. 

1/27/2011 update

Mono 2.8.2 was released awhile back, which included some security fixes and enhancements. I have since posted an updated script along another blog post related to it here. 

10/26/2010 update

The script now installs to /opt/mono-2.8 instead of /usr/local in favor of the parallel mono environment suggestion. You may need to add /opt/mono-2.8/bin to your system PATH.

For Ubuntu, this is located in /etc/environment; insert /opt/mono-2.8/bin to the beginning of the path. Keep in mind, this will change the global PATH, so if your'e using a workstation, this may affect other applications that depend on Mono. Consider changing your profile PATH. (See comments for more details). 

For RH/Fedora, I updated the install script to also create an environment script at: /etc/profile.d to include this mono install to your system path.

Disclaimer: You should only try this script if your'e familiar with the process of compiling packages manually. I'm trying to make it work for MonoDevelop and other files, but it may not work with them in its current state.

Feel free to fork and make changes of your own to the script from GitHub. I'll gladly welcome pull requests containing improvements.

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Updated June 23, 2010!

Lately, I’ve been really digging the new Ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop and web server. So I’ve been meaning to get a post out here describing how I got Mono trunk installed since it comes packaged with 2.4.4.  After much testing, I finally have finished getting a script to work with a fresh, vanilla install.

I stumbled on this blog post by Boris Schieman where he wrote a bash script to compile and install the Mono trunk.  I made a few tweaks to it for a vanilla linux install for the tagged 2.6.4 release and setup another one for updating a mono trunk build using the daily tarballs. I’ve successfully tested both versions on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid. I’m just a casual linux/mono user, so use this at your own risk.

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