How To Install mono-runtime on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mono-runtime on Debian 11.
What is mono-runtime
mono-runtime 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 the Virtual Machine, JIT (Just-in-Time) and AOT (Ahead-of-Time) code generator “mono-sgen”. mono-sgen executes applications for the CLI (Common Language Infrastructure). Mono currently only supports the X86, PowerPC, ARM, S/390x, AMD64 and MIPS architectures.
This package installs this architecture’s default runtime version.
There are three methods to install mono-runtime on Debian 11. 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-runtime Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mono-runtime using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mono-runtime
Install mono-runtime Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mono-runtime using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mono-runtime
Install mono-runtime Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mono-runtime using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mono-runtime
How To Uninstall mono-runtime on Debian 11
To uninstall only the mono-runtime package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mono-runtime
Uninstall mono-runtime And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mono-runtime and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mono-runtime
Remove mono-runtime Configurations and Data
To remove mono-runtime configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mono-runtime
Remove mono-runtime configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mono-runtime configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mono-runtime
Dependencies
mono-runtime have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mono-runtime package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
