Introduction

MapStudio OS is built with portability in mind. It runs with a recent version of Mono and WinForms.

Details

I regularly try out MapStudio in Ubuntu, and there are only instructions for Ubuntu here, but other distributions should be very similar in approach.

Installating Mono

To install mono, simply open a command promt and type:

sudo apt-get install mono libmono-winforms1.0-cil

Answer yes to the prompt.

Installing MapStudio OS

Since there is no MSI support in linux, download the most recent binaries from the downloads page.

Unpack the folder contents, and rename:

unzip "MapStudio OS Binaries 1.0.5.zip"
mv Release MapStudio

Now start up MapStudio:

cd MapStudio
mono MapStudio.exe

Basically everything works as in Windows, but there are a few quirks here and there. If you find one, please report it.