If you want to remove Mono for whatever reason, then this is the ultimate guide. Simple straight forward steps to completely remove Mono.

There has been a wide range of discussion on the subject of Mono and its inclusion in Ubuntu by default. Some people believe that Mono may infringe on Microsoft patents while others believe that it is useful to include. Personally, I have no idea about whether Mono does infringe on Microsoft patents, but I see other reasons why Ubuntu should remove it.

There has been a lot of pro-Mono and anti-Mono arguments assaulting the community of late. The debate is not new but both sides have taken up arms since some distributions have decided to either remove Mono or include Mono by default.

To remove Mono from your shiny new desktop installation of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx enter the following command (after taking the usual precautions like backups of your data etc)..

Mono has a potentially fatal sting-in-the-tail for some, and leaves a rather nasty taste in the mouths of many others… So, I thought I’d see what happened if I removed Mono from Ubuntu.

A bizarre decision is made just weeks before the final release of Ubuntu 10.04 because an F-Spot (Mono) competitor is removed and Banshee (Mono) gains integration with Ubuntu One
Steven Rosenberg has just published a rave (finally!) about Ubuntu 10.04. He particularly likes gThumb, which can help remove Mono from Ubuntu.

To most people, Mono is a disease that leaves young people tired and listless. But to members of the free software community, Mono is something worse: a controversy that leaves everybody over-wrought and mistrusting each other.

"A long time ago (February 28th, 2005 to be exact), I wrote a post titled Add and Remove HTML elements dynamically with JavaScript. To this day, it continues to be the most highly traffic page on my website. However there is a number of things I’d like to point out that we can improve upon that implementation (since it is very outdated), and for the record, retract my three year old statement where I said “I hate JavaScript.” That simply isn’t true anymore, and it hasn’t been true for a while now. Nevertheless, let’s move onto business. Here’s how you can simply add and remove HTML elements..."

I keep seeing posts on Identi.ca (and elsewhere) from people looking for alternatives to *really really** good applications like Gnome-do and Banshee just because they are written in C#/Mono.