Installing the latest Mono 2.10 and MonoDevelop 2.8 on ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric

I recently had reason to begin working with .NET again and decided to use Mono so I could do most of my development on Linux.  I wanted to get a parallel mono setup so I could use the latest releases of Mono and MonoDevelop without impacting my distribution's files.

Based on the recommendations of this post:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/5304/upgrading-to-latest-stable-mono

I decided to download the 2.10.8 deb from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mono-parallel/files/

Which worked fine and was relatively painless.

Then, I wanted to get the latest version of MonoDevelop installed as well.  I found an install script for a previous version:

https://github.com/nathanb/iws-snippets/blob/master/mono-install-scripts/ubuntu/install_monodevelop-2.6.0.1.sh

and updated it some for the following reasons:

• Referenced new versions of the source files being compiled
• download & install xulrunner & libgluezilla debs because I had build problems without using these specific versions

The resulting script which worked fine is here:

https://gist.github.com/1975033

I may try this build script next time:

https://github.com/firegrass/mono-installer-script