Installing MonoDevelop from Source on Ubuntu Lowell Heddings @lowellheddings October 7, 2007, 6:44am EDT After reading a post from my friend Daniel about the new release of MonoDevelop, I decided to try and install it which is when I realized that the installation from source is so painful I’d better figure it out and share it with. MonoDevelop is 'built-in' to Unity- all I had to do in order to 'enable' it was choose 'MonoDevelop (built-in)' as the 'External Editor' under Unity preferences. I also uninstalled the incredibly bloated Visual Studio installation, which uses something like 10+ GB of disk space. If you choose to use the installer that seems to be the default option, Unity will automatically try to install visual studio, and I can't even find an option to install MonoDevelop. If you go to old versions, and grab the latest release form there, then the offline installer will give you monodevelop.
Install MonoDevelop on Debian 10 (Buster). Never had a problem with installing MonoDevelop on Debian before. Even after they removed it from the Debian official repository. That MonoDevelop version was usually very old anyway.
This actually took me some hours to figure out and some support on Debian Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifewithdebian/
For Debian 8 and Debian 9 the instructions on MonoDevelops webpage works just fine. Since Debian 10 is just out I figure they haven’t tested (and they also write that) Debian 10 yet. But should be working on newer Debian version. So lets install MonoDevelop on Debian 10.
By default apt doesn’t download from https, so you need to install the following packages first.
Then we add the key for the repository.
Install Monodevelop Windows 10
Add the correct repository for Debian 10 (Buster)
Last thing before installing MonoDevelop, update your package list.
Then you can install MonoDevelop.
Install Monodevelop Windows 10 Tutorial
Hope you managed to install MonoDevelop to Debian 10. Your Debian 10 system should now have the latest MonoDevelop version installed. Congrats!
If you follow the same path in MonoDevelops instructions for Debian 8 and Debian 9, where they use vs-jessie and vs-stretch. You would assume to use vs-buster. If you use vs-buster and try to install MonoDevelop you will not find it. You will get a message with something like: Unable to locate the package: monodevelop
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