How do I remove Mono from my Ubuntu installation?
Which applications depend on Mono? Could you suggest me some alternatives?
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Sign up to join this communityFirst Things First: The list of applications that will be removed if you remove Mono:
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
Mono Removal:
Make a backup of all your data associated with Mono applications.
sudo apt-get purge libmono* libgdiplus cli-common libglitz-glx1 libglitz1
mono-runtime
is the base package. Uninstall it and all the dependent packages will be removed
Apr 15, 2012 at 18:00
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