instructions don't include any possible troubleshooting. trying to run the gameoflife example in monodevelop on ubuntu and can't link GTK project with PCL

[adrian-sal-kennedy]

system: ubuntu 21.10, monodevelop 7.8.4 (build 2)

attempt to follow instructions in this article from a fresh clone of the xamarin examples, and everything works until: GameOfLife.GTK, rightclick "References", "Edit References...", in "Projects" tab, I see:

GameOfLife (Incompatible target framework: $([MSBuild::GetTargetFrameworkIdentifier('$(TargetFramework)')),Version=v$([MSBuild]::GetTargetFramework)',2)))

there simply are no instructions on how to actually get the right target framework installed, whether it can even be done, where to download it (windows downloads only through most paths!), what even the name of the thing is called (monikers, NetStandard vs NetFramework vs NetCore, vs mono, etc etc ad infinitum - this is ambiguous in the extreme and I'm not a complete noob). I know my system is probably munted somehow, but honestly I installed everything fresh to try this out so I'd like to at least have a clue as to what a proper setup looks like.

I'd just do it in windows if it hadn't broken on my machine and left me with no other option.

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