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It’s been pointed out to me that many people aren’t aware of the current status of Linux packages on mono-project.com, so I’m here’s a summary:

Stable packages

Mono 3.10.0, MonoDevelop 5.5.0.227, NuGet 2.8.1 and F# 3.1.1.26 packages are available. Plus related bits. MonoDevelop on Linux does not currently include the F# addin (there are a lot of pieces to get in place for this to work).

These are built for x86-64 CentOS 7, and should be compatible with RHEL 7, openSUSE 12.3, and derivatives. I haven’t set up a SUSE 1-click install file yet, but I’ll do it next week if someone reminds me.

They are also built for Debian 7 – on i386, x86-64, and IBM zSeries processors. The same packages ought to work on Ubuntu 12.04 and above, and any derivatives of Debian or Ubuntu. Due to ABI changes, you need to add a second compatibility extension repository for Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10 to get anything to work, and a different compatibility extension repository for Debian derivatives with Apache 2.4 if you want the mod-mono ASP.NET Apache module (Debian 8+, Ubuntu 13.10+, and derivatives, will need this).

MonoDevelop 5.5 on Ubuntu 14.04

In general, see the install guide to get these going.

Docker

You may have seen Microsoft recently posting a guide to using ASP.NET 5 on Docker. Close inspection would show that this Docker image is based on our shiny new Xamarin Mono docker image, which is based on Debian 7.The full details are on Docker Hub, but the short version is “docker pull mono:latest” gets you an image with the very latest Mono.

directhex@desire:~$ docker pull mono:latest
Pulling repository mono
9da8fc8d2ff5: Download complete 
511136ea3c5a: Download complete 
f10807909bc5: Download complete 
f6fab3b798be: Download complete 
3c43ebb7883b: Download complete 
7a1f8e485667: Download complete 
a342319da8ea: Download complete 
3774d7ea06a6: Download complete 
directhex@desire:~$ docker run -i -t mono:latest mono --version 
Mono JIT compiler version 3.10.0 (tarball Wed Nov  5 12:50:04 UTC 2014)
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 
	LLVM:          supported, not enabled.
	GC:            sgen

The Dockerfiles are on GitHub.