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Upgrade Mono to 2.4.3 on SLES 10

    Overview

    Upgrade your version of Mono to be compatible with MindTouch

    Goal

    After completing this tutorial you will have installed/Upgraded Mono

    Install/Upgrade Mono

    Here is an overview on how you can upgrade your Mono installation to 2.4.3.

    Open YAST and click on Installation Source:

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    Select HTTP from the list of Media Types and then click Next:

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    Add the following information:

    server name: ftp.novell.com
    directory on server: /pub/mono/download-2.4/SLE_10/
    Keep the Anonymous checkbox checked

    You can see this information filled out as follows:

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    Next click OK and the repo will be added to your server. Next open a terminal and run the following command:

    zypper install mono-core

     

    This will then prompt you if you want to uninstall the default Mono and install 2.4.3.1
    Say yes to this and Mono will be installed

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    Once the installation finishes it will return you to a command prompt where you can verify that the correct version of Mono is installed by running the following command:

    mono --version
    

    It should return the following:

    SLES10SP2:~ # mono --version
    Mono JIT compiler version 2.4.3.1 (tarball Mon Dec 28 20:19:31 UTC 2009)
    Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
    TLS: __thread
    GC: Included Boehm (with typed GC)
    SIGSEGV: altstack
    Notifications: epoll
    Architecture: x86
    Disabled: none

    What's Next

    After upgrading your Mono version make sure your MindTouch install is running the current version too.  If not, upgrade MindTouch.  

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