In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Mono on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Mono is an open-source platform for developing and running cross-platform applications based on the ECMA/ISO Standards. It is a free and open-source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET framework.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Mono on the Ubuntu 18.04 server.
Install Mono on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver
Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running the following apt commands in the terminal.
sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo apt install dirmngr gnupg apt-transport-https ca-certificates
Step 2. Installing Mono on Ubuntu 18.04.
Now, we import the repository’s GPG key using the following command below:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF
Next, add the Mono repository to your Ubuntu system:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu stable-bionic main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list'
Run the following commands below to install Mono:
sudo apt update sudo apt install mono-complete
Step 3. Verify Mono Installation.
To verify if Mono is installed, run the commands below:
$ mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 6.6.0.161 (tarball Tue Dec 16 13:46:11 UTC 2019)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
TLS: __thread
SIGSEGV: altstack
Notifications: epoll
Architecture: amd64
Disabled: none
Misc: softdebug
Interpreter: yes
LLVM: yes(646)
Suspend: hybrid
GC: sgen (concurrent by default)
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Mono. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Mono on your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official Mono website.
