Mono 2.4 Source Install on CentOS 5

Here are the steps to install the latest mono 2.4 from source on CentOS 5.

yum install bison make gcc gettext glib2 glib2-devel

wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono/mono-2.4.3.tar.bz2
tar xvjf mono-2.4.3.tar.bz2
cd mono-2.4.3
./configure --prefix=/opt/mono-2.4
make
make install
cd /usr/bin
mv mono mono.old
mv gmcs gmcs.old
ln -s /opt/mono-2.4/bin/mono /usr/bin/mono
ln -s /opt/mono-2.4/bin/gmcs  /usr/bin/gmcs

Verify versions

dekiwiki:~# mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 2.4.3
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

dekiwiki:~# gmcs --version
Mono C# compiler version 2.4.3