mono-boehm command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

mono-boehm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mono-boehm: command not found

Solutions to mono-boehm: command not found

How To Fix mono-boehm: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mono-boehm is provided by mono-runtime-boehm package.

mono-runtime-boehm is:

Mono is a platform for running and developing applications based on the ECMA/ISO Standards. Mono is an open source effort led by Xamarin. Mono provides a complete CLR (Common Language Runtime) including compiler and runtime, which can produce and execute CIL (Common Intermediate Language) bytecode (aka assemblies), and a class library.

This package contains the Virtual Machine, JIT (Just-in-Time) and AOT (Ahead-of-Time) code generator “mono-sgen”. mono-sgen executes applications for the CLI (Common Language Infrastructure). Mono currently only supports the X86, PowerPC, ARM, S/390x, AMD64 and MIPS architectures.

This package uses Boehm’s conservative garbage collector.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install mono-runtime-boehm

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install mono-runtime-boehm.

sudo apt -y install mono-runtime-boehm

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install mono-runtime-boehm

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mono-boehm command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.