Broken monodevelop

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Hi I wanted to upgrade my version of mono so that I would be able to use certain .Net 4 features.

I downloaded the 2.10 tarball and compiled it as per the instructions I found which seems to have gone well.

This is the output I get for:

$mono -V

Mono JIT compiler version 2.10 (tarball Sun Jan 8 11:25:36 GMT 2012) Copyright (C) 2002-2011 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com TLS: __thread SIGSEGV: altstack Notifications: epoll Architecture: x86 Disabled: none Misc: softdebug LLVM: supported, not enabled. GC:
Included Boehm (with typed GC and Parallel Mark)**

However, monodevelop will no longer start and I get the following output instead.

$ monodevelop WARNING: Cannot find Mozilla directory containing libgtkembedmoz.so. Some Addins may not be able to function. Please set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to your Mozilla directory. Unhandled Exception: System.TypeLoadException: A type load exception has occurred.**

I've tried removing and reinstalling monodevelop but that doesn't seem to have worked.

Does anyone know how I can fix this or is monodevelop incompatible with mono 2.10 as it seems to be suggested by some google search results? If that is the case, how do I revert to a previous version of mono (yes I'm a bit of a linux noob)?

I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 with xfce.

Thanks for any help!

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ubuntumonomonodevelop
If the mono-2.10 makefile contains an uninstall target, run make uninstall, that should remove what was installed. Then sudo apt-get install mono to install the mono version from the Ubuntu repos. - Daniel Fischer
For what it's worth, Ubuntu 11.10 ships with mono 2.10. - ken
It seems that everything in Linux is broken by default, and it's our job to tweak the hell out of it in order to get things working. - uSeRnAmEhAhAhAhAhA

1 Answers

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Building mono and monodevelop on top of the existing ubuntu mono installation will give you very confusing and potentially broken packages. You are best off using a Parallel Mono Environment to build newer/beta mono things.

If you don't want to sit and build everything from source you can install my new binary packages for ubuntu as described in a Google+ post here.

As for fixing your existing installation, I would do : apt-get install --reinstall mono libmono*