Installation/Setup

For our purposes, we will only be installing the Mono runtime environment. If you have an interest in understanding Mono in more depth, I encourage you to install the source and build Mono with its own C# compiler, mcs.

The Mono runtime environment is most quickly set up on Linux through an RPM distribution. Packages for various versions of Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake, and SuSe are available through Novell/Ximian’s Red Carpet installation utility. There is also a Windows installer if you’d like to try out Mono on Microsoft Windows. If you want to run Mono with Apache, install Apache before proceeding with the Mono installation. The Apache configuration will be covered later in this chapter. Mono supports Apache 1.3 and Apache ...

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