Packages for the major Linux distributions are being worked on, see http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-devel-list/2014-June/...

One of the early outcomes of this are CI packages built for each commit: http://www.mono-project.com/DistroPackages/Jenkins

Thanks for providing those links. I'm really excited to see Xamarin hiring a developer for Linux support issues.

You just have to wait a while for someone to build a package (and depending on distro, you might also have to wait a release), or just compile it yourself. Or, if you are "adventurous" and a good FOSS citizen, you can compile it yourself, and make a package.

Here's a bleeding edge PPA for you.. not mine, just searched launchpad for a new mono version in one...

https://launchpad.net/~inizan-yannick/+archive/ubuntu/mono

Generally, yeah. There is some ubuntu ppas but I wouldn't recommend them.

It's not too hard to build, but it does take an age on a non-ssd machine.

Don't know, it doesn't build for me. https://i.imgur.com/2fGIVM4.jpg

Yea I know about that, fixed. MVC5 is working, even razor views with some tweaks.

Wildly off-topic but which GTK theme is that? Ex I like it's lack of visual clutter even against greybird or numix.

Lubuntu default theme :)

Excellent thanks for answering.