[Pkg-mono-devel] New and need help pls

[Ralph Krausse]

OMG you are the best. I have it running! thank you thank you thank you....

-----Original Message-----
From: Jo Shields [mailto:directhex at apebox.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 8:27 AM
To: Ralph Krausse
Cc: pkg-mono-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Pkg-mono-devel] New and need help pls

On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 08:16 -0400, Ralph Krausse wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  
> 
>                 Just joined the group. I am a Mono and Linux newbie so 
> pls go easy on me. I installed Debian on a VM. Now I wanted to install 
> Mono and develop some ideas I have. To install Mono (I suspect just 
> the runtime), I ran Terminal and entered ' apt-get install mono-devel 
> '. It went off and downloaded and installed a slew of stuff. Then I 
> figured to develop, I need the IDE so I downloaded the deb file from 
> http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/monodevelop/download. But when I 
> run  the package, I get the following error:
 
You've tried to install Wheezy's (Debian 7) MonoDevelop on Squeeze (Debian 6). To install packages you should really be using apt-get which will install your release's version. "apt-get install monodevelop"
installs MonoDevelop 2.4 on Debian 6

> 
> Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: mono-runtime (>= 2.10.1)
> 
>  
> 
>                 Now, looking at what was installed during the runtime 
> installed, I see it only installed .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 so the mono 
> develop install makes sense, it needs .NET 3.x installed.
> 
Your numbering is slightly off - .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 are add-ons for .NET 2.0, and are supported fine in Debian 6 - however MonoDevelop 2.6+ needs .NET 4.0, which needs Debian 7 (Mono 2.8+)

> 
>                 First I am I reading that correctly? Second, how do I 
> installed .NET 3.x, I do see that is released. Or am I doing this all 
> wrong?
> 

If you *need* .NET 4.0 support (i.e. the latest MonoDevelop) then upgrading to the yet-to-be-released Debian 7 is probably the easiest route.