Installing mono on open suse I'm trying to install mono on my open suse linux. I downloaded the latest rpm packages from the mono page and tried to install the mono-core package with the --test attribute rpm -ivh --test /home/martin/Downloads/mono-core-3.2.3-0.x86_64.rpm but got an error saying: error: Failed dependencies: mono(System.ComponentModel.Composition) = 4.0.0.0 is needed by mono-core-3.2.3-0.x86_64 mono(System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations) = 4.0.0.0 is needed by mono-core-3.2.3-0.x86_64 mono(System.Data) = 4.0.0.0 is needed by mono-core-3.2.3-0.x86_64 mono(System.Runtime.Serialization) = 4.0.0.0 is needed by mono-core-3.2.3-0.x86_64 mono(System.ServiceModel) = 4.0.0.0 is needed by mono-core-3.2.3-0.x86_64 I understand that these dependencies should be installed first, but there isn't any just 'mono' package. Am I missing something here ?

The mono documentation is not very clear on exactly how to install the packages they provide: `install the packages "mono" ...` while there is no single package with that name.

One of the multitude of packages you have to download probably provides `mono` as a virtual package, providing the dependency your installation attempt complains about. Installing all packages at once should solve the issue:


cd /home/martin/Downloads
rpm -ivh *.rpm