[Pkg-mono-devel] Installing Mono on Debian

[Adam R. B. Jack]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Eduard Bloch wrote:

> #include <hallo.h>
> * Adam R. B. Jack [Tue, Aug 03 2004, 12:44:28PM]:
>
>> I am attempting to 'apt-get install mono' on brutus.apache.org, and I seem
>> to be getting stuck with mono 0.30 issues, and not getting to mono 1.0
>> (which I need).
>
> You use Testing. Testing sucks by-design; if you wish the latest
> versions, use Sid. Though, we will have to remove 0.30 from Sarge too
> since it is not acceptable (old, unsupported) and 1.0 is not acceptable
> either (ugly RC bugs).

Amusingly, half an hour ago those words were greek to me. I finally 
pointed Lynx at the repository, saw the testing/main directory, and 
figured out what you meant.

> I don't know how your sources.list line looks. The one from the homepage
> should work.

It looked exactly like the home page. It didn't work 'cos the user (i.e. 
me) was too clueless to actually try the 'apt-get update' command after 
editting it, to update local caches. I was nervous that I'd mess things 
up, so didn't want to try it. Eventually I got a clue. You just can't talk 
down to users enough, can you. ;-)

> However, you better use the packages from Sid since those

Yup, done, and it has installed (along now with monodoc).

Thanks for your patience and help.

regards

Adam