How To Install mono-complete on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mono-complete on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mono-complete
mono-complete 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 is a metapackage and pulls in the Mono runtime, development tools and all libraries.
Install this package if you want to run software for Mono or Microsoft .NET which you are not installing from a Debian package.
For packagers: This package is not to be used as dependency for packages! You should build-depend on cli-common-dev and the needed libraries instead.
There are three methods to install mono-complete on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mono-complete 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-complete using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mono-complete
Install mono-complete Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mono-complete using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mono-complete
Install mono-complete 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 mono-complete using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mono-complete
How To Uninstall mono-complete on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mono-complete package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mono-complete
Uninstall mono-complete And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mono-complete and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mono-complete
Remove mono-complete Configurations and Data
To remove mono-complete configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mono-complete
Remove mono-complete configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mono-complete configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mono-complete
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mono-complete package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
