How To Install ca-certificates-mono on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install ca-certificates-mono on Ubuntu 18.04. ca-certificates-mono is Common CA certificates (Mono keystore)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ca-certificates-mono on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is ca-certificates-mono

ca-certificates-mono 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 uses the hooks of the ca-certificates package to update the Mono keystore.

There are three methods to install ca-certificates-mono on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ca-certificates-mono Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ca-certificates-mono using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ca-certificates-mono

Install ca-certificates-mono Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ca-certificates-mono using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ca-certificates-mono

Install ca-certificates-mono 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install ca-certificates-mono using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ca-certificates-mono

How To Uninstall ca-certificates-mono on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove ca-certificates-mono

Uninstall ca-certificates-mono And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ca-certificates-mono and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ca-certificates-mono

Remove ca-certificates-mono Configurations and Data

To remove ca-certificates-mono configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ca-certificates-mono

Remove ca-certificates-mono configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ca-certificates-mono configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ca-certificates-mono

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ca-certificates-mono package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.