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Mono Adds Mac OS X Package

Posted by timothy on from the for-your-conversion dept.

Good news for those of you who've went through the pain of trying to get Mono installed on Mac OS X: the team has quietly added a Mac OS X package. If you previously installed to /usr/local, however, be aware that the packaged version installs to /opt/local and adjust any paths accordingly. The Beta-1 Windows installer has also been fixed; download it here.

2 of 53 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Usability? by bay43270 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's in it's first beta. 1.0 is due at the end of June. Here's the story. And the roadmap

  2. Re:Explanation of /opt/local and /usr/local by frankie · · Score: 4, Informative
    /usr/local is a commonly used place in many unixish OSes, but Apple likes to think different. This means that whenever you install a Mac upgrade (or even certain updates) there is a possibility that any non-Apple additions to /usr (also /dev, /bin, /var, /etc) will be overwritten by Apple.

    Therefore, the safe-but-annoying choice is to put your 3rd party stuff somewhere else. For example, Fink defaults to the (previously nonexistent) /sw directory. Likewise, /opt does not exist in OSX (unless you install this Mono package)