Need to install Mono to use Azure on Ubuntu 14.04

To install mono

sudo apt-get install mono-complete

Silverlight is not available on Linux, but you can try alternatives such as Pipelight.

Installing Mono if your are behind a proxy or a firewall When :

1. Ports are blocked (keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371)
2. When you are not able to add a signing key

Add Signing Key using

    wget "http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF" -O out && sudo apt-key add out && rm out

Add Repository

    echo "deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian wheezy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-xamarin.list  

Update repolist

sudo apt-get update    

Install Mono (using the package names in bold)

The package mono-devel should be installed to compile code.

The package mono-complete should be installed to install everything - this should cover most cases of “assembly not found” errors.

The package referenceassemblies-pcl should be installed for PCL compilation support - this will resolve most cases of “Framework not installed: .NETPortable” errors during software compilation.

Intro

sudo apt-get install mono-complete does in fact install mono in most cases as expected. But if you only install mono-complete without first adding Mono Project GPG signing key and the package repository (and updating the repolist) you are in a great danger to be using the old and obsolete versions of TLS/SSL algorithms among other potentially harmful pieces of code, at least for now.

If you want to use mono more safely you should follow the instructions described in mono-project.com install page or a similar one.

Example:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF
echo "deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian wheezy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-xamarin.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mono-complete

Mono JIT compiler version 4.2.1 -> 4.4.2

Example2

apt-get -y update && \
  apt-get -y install \
  wget \
  tar \
  git \
  autoconf \
  libtool \
  automake \
  build-essential \
  mono-devel \
  gettext
wget http://download.mono-project.com/sources/mono/mono-4.6.0.125.tar.bz2 -O mono-4.6.0.125.tar.bz2
tar xvf mono-4.6.0.125.tar.bz2
cd "mono-4.6.0/"
./configure
make
make install

Mono JIT compiler version 4.2.1 -> 4.6.0.125 You can find the other stable versions out there on the same page also.

Background information

Testing done with the mono .Net implementation using ubuntu 16.04 and 14.04 (with docker).

Install only mono-complete:

• Does not reject connections if server certificate is expired.

Do as instructed in the "Example1" or "Example2" -section

• Reject connections if server certificate is expired.
• More safe

I know this because i used trytls to test mono against badssl and other TLS/SSL testing-backends using C#-Net, F#-Net and VB-Net.