title: How can I tell if Mono is installed properly on Linux?
body: <p>I asked IT to install Mono on CentOS using the following commands:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$yum install bison gettext glib2 freetype fontconfig libpng libpng-devel libX11 libX11-devel glib2-devel libgdi* libexif glibc-devel urw-fonts java unzip gcc gcc-c++ automake autoconf libtool make bzip2 wget
  $cd /usr/local/src 
  $wget http://download.mono-project.com/sources/mono/mono-3.2.5.tar.bz2
  $tar jxf mono-3.2.5.tar.bz2
  $cd mono-3.2.5
  $./configure --prefix=/opt/mono
  $make &amp;&amp; make install
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, when I run <code>mono myapp.exe</code> I get</p>
  
  <pre><code>-bash: mono: command not found
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I know nothing about Linux - I feel like I'm in Japan. Assuming Linux has a path variable or something like it, maybe mono isn't in the path?</p>
  
  <p>I can't even find an executable called <code>mono</code> in <code>/usr/local/src</code>, just a <code>mono</code> folder. Mind you I can't work out how to even search for a file so I might not be looking properly.</p>
  
  <p>How can I tell whether its installed correctly? Maybe its just not available to the non-admin account I use?</p>
  
  <p>I'm lost. Help!</p>