PROTIP: PARALLEL-INSTALLING MONO VERSIONS IN AN APT-HAPPY WAY

If you’ve ever gotten tired of waiting for a new Mono release to appear, and taken matters into your own hands by compiling your own copy of Mono, you’ve likely faced the problem of “missing” libraries. “That’s weird, it says it can’t find gtk-sharp, but I have that package!” This happens because every version of Mono on your system has what’s called a Global Assembly Cache – a location where all