mono does not uninstall cleanly on jaunty

[Philip Wyett]

Mono is not purging cleanly on jaunty (beta 1 or release). See attached screenshot

[Vin Shankar (v-shankar)]

Assigned package mentioned in title, that's all.

[Jo Shields (directhex)]

Okay, bug tracked down.

/usr/share/mono/MonoGetAssemblyName.exe is used as part of the package installation process to register a package in the GAC. This app is linked against libmono-corlib1.0-cil, but doesn't depend on it. Without that app working, the manifest file which is used by the purge process (/usr/share/cli-common/packages.d/*.mono) is incorrect, and therefore doesn't lead to package removal (i.e. when the "gacutil" command is executed to run the remove, instead of getting a list of assemblies to remove (e.g. "Mono.Addins, Version=0.4.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0738eb9f132ed756"), it gets "The assembly mscorlib.dll was not found or could not be loaded."

This is too late to fix in Jaunty, but will be fixed in Karmic. For now, if you've purged all of Mono, then it's safe to delete /usr/lib/mono/gac

[VangelistX (vangelistx)]

There is only one way to fix all moNO bugs:
remove mono from GNOME and replace mono dependent applications by moNO free ones.
Replacing Tomboy with Gnote is good step forward.

BTW, there is a repository with latest Gnote packages for Ubuntu. You can get it here:
https://launchpad.net/~vperetokin/+archive/gnote

                                                      !!!

Please, remove moNO - M$ trojan horse in Linux.
How much it is important for the Free Software World?

http://nocturn.vsbnet.be/node/141

Must read!

[Jo Shields (directhex)]

Fixed in Karmic