How to remove Mono?

Question

How do I remove Mono from my Ubuntu installation?

Which applications depend on Mono? Could you suggest me some alternatives?

Answer 1

10.04

First Things First: The list of applications that will be removed if you remove Mono:

• Tomboy
• gBrainy (I'm not sure if an alternative exists)
• Docky
• Gnome Do
• Banshee
• F-Spot

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Alternative Applications:

• Tomboy alternative:

  GNote : sudo apt-get install gnote

• Docky alternatives:

  Avant Window Navigator : sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator

  Cairo Dock : sudo apt-get install cairo-dock

• Gnome Do alternative:

  Kupfer : sudo apt-get install kupfer

• Banshee alternatives:

  Clementine Music Player: http://www.clementine-player.org/

  Rhythmbox : sudo apt-get install rhythmbox

  Exaile : sudo apt-get install exaile

  Amarok (KDE application): sudo apt-get install amarok

• F-Spot alternatives:

  Shotwell : sudo apt-get install shotwell

  Digikam (KDE application): sudo apt-get install digikam

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Mono Removal:

1. Make a backup of all your data associated with Mono applications.

2. sudo apt-get purge libmono* libgdiplus cli-common libglitz-glx1 libglitz1

Answer 2

12.04

For Ubuntu 12.04 if you want to remove the complete mono packages you need to remove mono-runtime

sudo apt-get purge mono-runtime

This is the base package and should recursively remove all packages which need it