How To Install mono-winforms on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install mono-winforms on CentOS 8. mono-winforms is Windows Forms implementation for Mono

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mono-winforms on CentOS 8.

What is mono-winforms

This package provides a fully managed implementation of System.Windows.Forms, the default graphical toolkit for .NET applications.

We can use yum or dnf to install mono-winforms on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mono-winforms.

Install mono-winforms on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install mono-winforms using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mono-winforms

Install mono-winforms on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install mono-winforms using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mono-winforms

How To Uninstall mono-winforms on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the mono-winforms package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mono-winforms

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mono-winforms on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.