Tutorials:Installing Prerequisites on Linux - tobiasschulz/MonoGame-SDL2 GitHub Wiki

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Table of Contents Introduction Download and install Cloning MonoGame Building

This page lists the requirements for creating a MonoGame project. These steps were created while installing on a Ubuntu machine so they may differ if you are using a different OS.

Install the following packages using your pkg manager:

1. MonoDevelop
2. git
3. Cola Git GUI
4. mesa-common-dev (OpenTk needs this to create a window)

Get OpenTk http://www.opentk.com/

1. Open Cola Git GUI
2. Select "Clone..."
3. Enter the URL from the front page, which should be https://github.com/mono/MonoGame.git
4. Select a destination folder
5. Press "Pull..."
6. Select "origin/develop"
7. Press "Pull"

Now that you have cloned MonoGame, you can open the MonoGame.Framework.Linux.sln in MonoDevelop. You may find that you cannot Build because OpenTK could not be found. To rectify:

1. Click "Project" -> "Edit References"
2. Click the tab ".Net Assembly"
3. Find OpenTK.dll (Likely in "OpenTK/1.0/Binaries/OpenTK/Release/OpenTK.dll")

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