How To Install mono-xbuild on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mono-xbuild
on Kali Linux.
What is mono-xbuild
mono-xbuild 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.
xbuild is Mono’s implementation of msbuild and allows projects that have a msbuild file to be compiled natively on Linux.
Microsoft Build (msbuild) is a build system developed by Microsoft similar in spirit to Nant (in that it uses XML files for describing the build process) and in the same spirit as make.
http://www.mono-project.com/Microsoft.Build
There are three methods to install mono-xbuild
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-xbuild Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install mono-xbuild
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install mono-xbuild Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install mono-xbuild
using apt
by running the following command:
Install mono-xbuild 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.
After updating apt database, We can install mono-xbuild
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall mono-xbuild on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the mono-xbuild
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall mono-xbuild And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mono-xbuild
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove mono-xbuild Configurations and Data
To remove mono-xbuild
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove mono-xbuild configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mono-xbuild
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
mono-xbuild have the following dependencies:
- mono-runtime
- libc6
- libmono-corlib4.5-cil
- libmono-microsoft-build-engine4.0-cil
- libmono-microsoft-build-framework4.0-cil
- libmono-microsoft-build-tasks-v4.0-4.0-cil
- libmono-microsoft-build-utilities-v4.0-4.0-cil
- libmono-system-core4.0-cil
- libmono-system-data4.0-cil
- libmono-system-runtime-serialization4.0-cil
- libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil
- libmono-system-xml4.0-cil
- libmono-system4.0-cil
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mono-xbuild
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.