I found the package list noted here, http://dia-installer.de/howto/compile_msvc/index.html.en#ubuntu, out of date for this version of Unbuntu.
Here's what I found worked for me,
sudo apt-get install autoconf automake autotools-dev libtool-bin git git-core gsfonts-x11 \
intltool libatk1.0-dev libcairo-gobject2 libcairo2-dev liberror-perl \
libexpat1-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgdiplus \
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgif-dev libglib2.0-bin libglib2.0-dev \
libgtk2.0-dev libice-dev libltdl-dev \
libpango1.0-dev libpixman-1-dev \
libpng12-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev libsm-dev libsqlite0 \
libssl-dev libtool libx11-dev libxau-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shm0-dev \
libxcb1-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxdamage-dev libxdmcp-dev \
libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxml2-dev \
libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev m4 python-sip python2.7-dev swig \
x11proto-composite-dev x11proto-core-dev x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-fixes-dev \
x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-render-dev \
x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev xtrans-dev zlib1g-dev libart-2.0-dev \
mono-reference-assemblies-2.0 mono-devel libmono-cil-dev