title: Install Mono Runtime Locally
body: <p>Here is my situation. I am on a Mac using Brew as my package manager. I had mono installed on my machine and I was doing all sorts of development in C#. I was doing web development, gui development, ect. When I tried to update my machine using Brew, I got an error. Uninstalling Mono solved the issue.</p>
  
  <p>So, what I did is I toyed around and I created a 2nd user on my machine. Now, this user doesn't need anything to work. I just need Mono and Mono Develop to work on this user without installing anything globally. Everything needs to be installed locally.</p>
  
  <p>So to be specific, I am the only on who uses my machine. My /Users directory looks like this.</p>
  
  <pre><code>/Users/dillon
  /Users/dummy
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So if I could install mono, in let's say:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/Users/dummy/.mono
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then in my .profile:</p>
  
  <pre><code>export MONO_PATH=/Users/dummy/.mono
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Obviously this isn't a perfect world but I was wondering if anyone is an expert on this subject?
  (Also, I use this dummy user for other stuff, I use it for Wine and I have a collection of software from school on this user.)</p>