I downloaded Ubunto 8.04 LTS from here
Download Ubuntu | Ubuntu
Had a small glitch in installing when it did not want to accept the partition it wanted but after a reboot it worked fine.
Got mono 1.26 from here
Mono 1.2.6 Downloads
and downloaded the .bin file for Linux.
No idea what to do with a bin file I hit the boards and found this
How do I install a .bin file? - Ubuntu Forums
So i opened a terminal and went to the folder where the .bin file was and used (cd changes directory ls lists what is in a directory for linux)
chmod a+x mono-1.2.6_6-installer.bin
sudo ./mono-1.2.6_6-installer.bin
and mono installed but got an error with runuo that 2 libraries are missing
libmono-microsoft-build2.0-cil and libmono-microsoft8.0-cil.
So checking a forum again
Installing software in Ubuntu
and using the synaptic package manager I installed the 2 libraries. (Thanks to RavenTUS)
Need to install gmcs with the command in terminal
sudo apt-get install mono-gmcs
I then used Scriptiz compiled runuo file
http://www.runuo.com/forums/756182-post41.html and followed the instructions (failed with the data path.cs though for half an hour because I am unable to read
)
I copied my UO folder from my windows machine tot he linux one and changed the datapath.cs to the folder i used
Compiled with no errors and worked with no problem when i connected with razor
*all thanks and praises to the people that provided the information*
At the moment mono seems to kill my graphical linux (nautilus/bonobo) , by not letting me access the account - way around it was to make 2 accounts with admin rules - i hope to get that error somehow away ...