[Pkg-mono-devel] Mono on Raspbery Pi B+ w/ Raspbian

[Jo Shields]

On 16/01/15 00:46, MDLeide wrote:
> Please pardon my (obvious) ignorance... Also, if there is a more appropriate
> place to be asking for this support, kindly guide me to it, and I will
> continue there.
>
> After getting home from work I wrote a freshly downloaded image of Raspbian
> to an SD card. I tried talking to mono from the command line (mono
> --version) and bash told me it didn't know what I was talking about.
>
> I then updated and upgraded via apt, and tried to install mono-complete
> again. Same dependency issue (as expected).
>
> Am I misunderstanding your meaning of 'packages already provide in
> Raspbian?' I took that to mean I could simply call mono from the command
> line. Am I missing something? Perhaps not even directly related to mono...
> maybe some general Linux concept I am not aware of.

Raspbian's existing software repositories contains tens of thousands of
software packages. You don't typically need to add repositories for
day-to-day usage. In this case, you added a repository with no Raspberry
Pi packages, masking the Pi-compatible packages which apt would
otherwise download from the Raspbian servers.