Mono on OS X shows old version after installing latest version

Question

I just installed Mono 3.10.0 on OS X using the package from their website. Before the installation I had installed 3.6.1.

After the installation of 3.10.0 mono --version still shows 3.6.1.

which mono returns /usr/local/bin/mono.

In /usr/local/bin/, mono refs to:

mono -> ../Cellar/kmono/3.6.1-10002/bin/mono.

Where can I find and activate my recently installed version 3.10.0?

~/Library/Frameworks/mono does not exist.

"Cellar/kmono" means you installed the custom Mono version from ProjectK/ASP.NET vNext via homebrew. Remove that version (vNext now works with official Mono). — Alexander Köplinger, Oct 20 '14 at 21:31
Maybe try the steps outlined in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7323261/uninstall-remove-a-homebrew-package-including-all-its-dependencies to get rid of the homebrew mono. — Alexander Köplinger, Oct 21 '14 at 11:24
Just tried ```brew uninstall kmono``` and `brew uninstall mono``` again. Then reinstalled the mono package again and everything works fine now. Thanks! — Alexander Zeitler, Oct 21 '14 at 11:32

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 10 '14 at 12:53

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You have a custom mono in your /usr/local, which takes precedence over the one you just installed. You need to remove your custom one.

Your recently installed mono can be found in /usr (try /usr/bin/mono --version, and it will print 3.10)

answered Oct 10 '14 at 12:53

Thanks, there's no ```/usr/bin/mono```. ```/usr/bin/mono --version``` also returns ```3.6.1``` – Alexander Zeitler Oct 10 '14 at 18:48
I've found another folder ```/usr/local/etc/mono``` which contains subfolders ```2.0```, ```4.0```, ```4.5``` and the creation date matches yesterday when I installed ```3.10.0``` . But calling ```mono --version``` inside the folder still returns ```3.6.1``` – Alexander Zeitler Oct 10 '14 at 19:02

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