How to Install and Configure Mono on Rocky Linux 8 and CentOS 8

Mono is a platform for developing and running cross-platform applications based on ECMA/ISO Standards. It is a free and open-source implementation of the Microsoft .NET framework.

This tutorial explains how to install Mono on Rocky Linux 8 and CentOS 8 or AlmaLinux 8

Precondition

The instructions assume that you are logged in as root or a privileged user sudo.

Install Mono on Rocky Linux 8 and CentOS 8

The easiest and recommended way to install Mono on debian 10 is to install it directly from the Mono repository. This is a relatively easy process and will only take a few minutes.

1) Import the GPG key from the repository using the following command:

sudo rpm --import 'http://pool.sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x3fa7e0328081bff6a14da29aa6a19b38d3d831ef'

2) Add the Mono repository to your system by running the command below:

dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.mono-project.com/repo/centos8-stable.repo 

The output will look like the following:

Adding repo from: https://download.mono-project.com/repo/centos8-stable.repo

3) Once the repository is enabled, install Mono with:

sudo dnf install mono-complete 

mono-complete is all the meta-packages you need for mono development, mono-complete will install the Mono runtime, development tools and all mono libraries.

4) Verify the installation by typing the following command, which will print the Mono version:

mono --version 

At the time of writing this article, the latest stable version of Mono is 6.12.0 Stable (6.12.0.122).

Mono JIT compiler version 6.12.0.122 (tarball Tue Feb 4 19:28:42 UTC 2021) 
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 
           Interpreter: yes 
           LLVM: yes(610) 
           Suspend: hybrid
           GC: sgen (concurrent by default)

At this point, you have successfully installed Mono on Rocky Linux 8 and CentOS 8, and you can start using it.

Start Mono with Hello World on Rocky Linux

To verify that everything is set up correctly, we will create a program that will print the classic “hello world” message.

Open the text editor nano and create a file named hello.cs with the following content:

nano hello.cs 
using System;

public class HelloWorld
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine ("Hello World!");
    }
}
 

use cscto build the program:

csc hello.cs 

The above command will build an executable named hello.exe.

Run the executable using the command below:

mono hello.exe 

The output will look like this:

Hello, World 

If you want to run a program by simply typing its name, you must set a flag to make it executable with the chmod command :

chmod +x hello.exe 

You can now run the file hello.exeby typing:

./hello.exe 

Conclusion

Today we learned how to install mono on rocky Linux 8 and CentOS 8 as well as AlmaLinux 8 also follows same processes, The latest stable Mono release packages are available for installation from the official Mono package repositories.

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