Create a new repo config file
cd /etc/yum.repos.d vi mono.repo
Add the following lines to the file
[Mono] name=Mono Stack (RHEL_5) type=rpm-md baseurl=http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/download-stable/RHEL_5/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/download-stable/RHEL_5/repodata/repomd.xml.key enabled=1
Update the yum cache to be on the safe side
yum clean all
Install the Mono server stack
yum install monotools-addon-server
The installed binaries will end up in “/opt/novell/mono/bin”.
You should issue the following command to set up your shell environment so that it finds mono, mcs and the other mono tools
source /opt/novell/mono/bin/mono-addon-environment.sh
Verify the version
mono --version Mono JIT compiler version 2.6.7 (tarball Mon Jul 19 18:28:58 UTC 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: amd64 Disabled: none
If you want the Mono environment to be permanent you can issue the following command.
cp /opt/novell/mono/bin/mono-addon-environment.sh /etc/profile.d