Monodevelop fails to startup on ubuntu?

I'm a Linux noop, and I was trying to get monodevelop up and running on my ubuntu 7.1 box. I added the Universal repository (or something, I don't really know) to my repository, and then issued apt-get install monodevelop. It was easy and quick. I 开发者_Python百科now have mono and monodevelop installed on my machine. Now, each time I try to launch monodevelop I receive an exception of type

System.TypeInitializationException

The exception message is

An exception was thrown by the type initializer for MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.IdeApp ---> System.ApplicationException: Couldn't create a remote process.

Any ideas?

Monodevelop works great in Jaunty (and comes along without adding repositories). Can you upgrade your Ubuntu install?

Since the time of 7.10, both Ubuntu and Mono (with it's IDE) have come a long way. I'd also suggest an upgrade. (For me Monodevelop works great on Ubuntu 9.04, but I'll give 9.10 a try this weekend)