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Getting an updated version of MonoDevelop on Ubuntu

The old and new versions of MonoDevelop overlaid on top of one another.

Thanks to the AUR (The Arch User Repository), an updated version of MonoDevelop is never very far away on Manjaro, Artix, Arch Linux and friends. Unfortunately, such delights can't be found so easily in the Ubuntu and Debian ecosystem. On a check inspection of the official repositories, the latest version available is 5.10, while the AUR is offering 7.1.2!

In addition, the newer versions offered via this 'flatpak' thing are sandboxed, so you can't combined multiple technologies like Node.JS and the amazing npm in your C♯ applications with it.

Thankfully, all is not lost. A clever GitHub user by the name of cra0zy has put together a script that will install the latest version of MonoDevelop for us - without all the hassle of sandboxes or manually compiling from source. Here's a link to this installer:

cra0zy/monodevelop-run-installer

This post is mainly for my own reference, but I'd love to know if it helped you out too. If it did, leave a comment below!

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