Mono 2.6.7 parallel environment debian/ubuntu package

Last evening I packaged a parallel environment of the new Mono 2.6.7 release, which was published on July 19th.
In this release the mono team fixed around 70 bug fixes. Other highlights are:

• Asp.Net Mvc2 is included
• Latest Version of
  • Soft-Debugger
  • Mono’s xBuild Tool
  • Linq to SQL Binding

Parallel-Environments are really great, as you can use two or more completely separate and  independent Mono stacks running at the same time, for development purposes or even for running unstable applications without compromising existing installed stable versions.
We mainly use it for development purposes of our .NET related projects, as it often takes a long time till the newest version is in the ubuntu repositories and I like to hack on the most recent base.

The parallel environment includes the following dependencies:

• Mono 2.6.7
• libgdiplus 2.6.7
• xsp-2.6.7
• mod_mono 2.6.3
• mono-tools 2.6.2
• gecko-sharp 2.0-0.13
• gtk-sharp 2.12.10
• gnome-sharp 2.24.1
• gnome-desktop-sharp 2.24.0
• mono-addins 0.5

Once downloaded the package installs to “/opt/mono-2.6″.

You can activate the environment by typing the following command in your terminal:

droth@ubuntu04:/var/dev/mono$ source mono-2.6-environment
Toward this step your terminal looks like this:
[mono] /var/dev/mono @

If you now enter “mono –version” the console should print the following lines:

Mono JIT compiler version 2.6.7 (tarball Thu Jul 29 21:42:44 CEST 2010)
Copyright (C) 2002-2010 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
TLS:           __thread
GC:            Included Boehm (with typed GC and Parallel Mark)
SIGSEGV:       altstack
Notifications: epoll
Architecture:  x86
Disabled:      none

Now you can build and run all your mono related stuff (e.x. build and run monodevelop from trunk) on the latest 2.6.7 version.

You can download the package directly via my ubuntu one link:

Download mono-2-6-7-parallel-environment.deb

I’m running the parallel environment on my Ubuntu 10.4 but I haven’t tested it on older ubuntu versions.
It is obvious that I can not give ANY warranty for the package.

Happy mono hacking!

dfMVC2 is now included
Latest versions of:
* Soft Debugger
* Mono's xbuild tool
* LINQ to SQL binding