Mono Applications

Consider reading this old summary to learn why Mono is still bad or this newer primer with instructions on how to remove Mono.

Mononono is an advised solution to prevent Mono from cropping up in a system. If you are using Gentoo, just add the line  to the file   and add " " to your USE flags in.

For Arch Linux, add  and   to the   section of. You will get the following message when installing the group : "Do you want to skip the above package(s) for this upgrade?" Just say yes and anything depending on Mono won't be installed.

The following are vectors of Mono infection, according to Wikipedia, which attempt to replace legitimate applications and need to be removed:

Finding and Removing Mono-based Software
The following are programs that use the Mono application programming interface|API and C# instead of Java, Python or other open architectures.