$ yum install bison gettext glib2 freetype fontconfig libpng libpng-devel libX11 libX11-devel glib2-devel libgdi* libexif glibc-devel urw-fonts java unzip gcc gcc-c++ automake autoconf libtool make bzip2 wget $ cd /usr/local/src $ wget http://download.mono-project.com/sources/mono/mono-4.8.0.495.tar.bz2 $ tar jxf mono-4.8.0.495.tar.bz2 $ cd mono-mono-4.8.0 $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/mono $ make && make install $ export PATH=$PATH:/opt/mono/bin $ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/mono/lib/pkgconfig $ # make sure to add the previous two lines to your ~/.bash_profile