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Asked: 2026-06-12T11:42:08+00:00

Here is my situation. I am on a Mac using Brew as my package

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Here is my situation. I am on a Mac using Brew as my package manager. I had mono installed on my machine and I was doing all sorts of development in C#. I was doing web development, gui development, ect. When I tried to update my machine using Brew, I got an error. Uninstalling Mono solved the issue.

So, what I did is I toyed around and I created a 2nd user on my machine. Now, this user doesn’t need anything to work. I just need Mono and Mono Develop to work on this user without installing anything globally. Everything needs to be installed locally.

So to be specific, I am the only on who uses my machine. My /Users directory looks like this.

/Users/dillon
/Users/dummy

So if I could install mono, in let’s say:

/Users/dummy/.mono

Then in my .profile:

export MONO_PATH=/Users/dummy/.mono

Obviously this isn’t a perfect world but I was wondering if anyone is an expert on this subject?
(Also, I use this dummy user for other stuff, I use it for Wine and I have a collection of software from school on this user.)

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to build Mono from source to install it into a custom location (in which case you can install it anywhere you like).

    You can install MonoDevelop.app anywhere, but getting it to use your custom Mono is a bit trickier. You might be able to make it work by mucking around with the relevant environment variables though.

    How to install Mono in a custom location and the relevant environment variables is all covered here: http://mono-project.com/Parallel_Mono_Environments

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