How To Install mono-devel on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mono-devel on Kali Linux.
What is mono-devel
mono-devel is:
Mono is a platform for running and developing applications based on the ECMA/ISO Standards. Mono is an open source effort led by Xamarin. Mono provides a complete CLR (Common Language Runtime) including compiler and runtime, which can produce and execute CIL (Common Intermediate Language) bytecode (aka assemblies), and a class library.
This package contains various development tools and pulls in the default development stack for Mono (which is 4.0 currently).
There are three methods to install mono-devel on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mono-devel Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mono-devel using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mono-develInstall mono-devel Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mono-devel using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mono-develInstall mono-devel Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mono-devel using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mono-develHow To Uninstall mono-devel on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the mono-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mono-develUninstall mono-devel And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mono-devel and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mono-develRemove mono-devel Configurations and Data
To remove mono-devel configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mono-develRemove mono-devel configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mono-devel configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mono-develDependencies
mono-devel have the following dependencies:
- mono-runtime
- libc6
- libglib2.0-0
- libmono-cecil-private-cil
- libmono-cecil-private-cil
- libmono-codecontracts4.0-cil
- libmono-compilerservices-symbolwriter4.0-cil
- libmono-corlib4.5-cil
- libmono-peapi4.0a-cil
- libmono-relaxng4.0-cil
- libmono-security4.0-cil
- libmono-system-componentmodel-composition4.0-cil
- libmono-system-componentmodel-dataannotations4.0-cil
- libmono-system-configuration-install4.0-cil
- libmono-system-configuration4.0-cil
- libmono-system-core4.0-cil
- libmono-system-data-datasetextensions4.0-cil
- libmono-system-data4.0-cil
- libmono-system-drawing4.0-cil
- libmono-system-identitymodel4.0-cil
- libmono-system-io-compression-filesystem4.0-cil
- libmono-system-io-compression4.0-cil
- libmono-system-net-http4.0-cil
- libmono-system-numerics4.0-cil
- libmono-system-runtime-serialization4.0-cil
- libmono-system-runtime4.0-cil
- libmono-system-security4.0-cil
- libmono-system-servicemodel4.0a-cil
- libmono-system-serviceprocess4.0-cil
- libmono-system-transactions4.0-cil
- libmono-system-web-services4.0-cil
- libmono-system-web4.0-cil
- libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil
- libmono-system-xml4.0-cil
- libmono-system4.0-cil
- mono-mcs
- mono-gac
- mono-xbuild
- libmono-cil-dev
- libmono-2.0-dev
- libmono-2.0-dev
- ca-certificates-mono
- pkg-config
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mono-devel package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.