[Pkg-mono-devel] Problem setting up 'mono-complete' on debian with wheezy sources enabled

[Jo Shields]

On 12/09/12 19:49, mabra at manfbraun.de wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I am on debian squeeze and just added the wheezy the sources to source.list
> and
> updated the repository. But 'apt-get install mono-complete' fails with a big
> error list:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   initscripts : Breaks: console-setup (< 1.74) but 1.68+squeeze2 is to be
> installed
>                 Breaks: nfs-common (< 1:1.2.5-3) but 1:1.2.2-4squeeze2 is to
> be installed
>   libc6-dev : Breaks: gcc-4.4 (< 4.4.6-4) but 4.4.5-8 is to be installed
>   libgcc1 : Breaks: gcc-4.4 (< 4.4.6-4) but 4.4.5-8 is to be installed
>   libgomp1 : Breaks: gcc-4.4 (< 4.4.6-4) but 4.4.5-8 is to be installed
>   libstdc++6 : Breaks: gcc-4.4 (< 4.4.6-4) but 4.4.5-8 is to be installed
>   python-apt : Recommends: xz-lzma but it is not going to be installed
>                Breaks: python-software-properties (< 0.70.debian-1+) but
> 0.60.debian-3 is to be installed
>                Breaks: update-notifier (< 0.99.3debian9) but 0.99.3debian8 is
> to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
> The usual 'fix broken' does not help.
>
> Does someone knows how to solve this problem ??

This isn't really a Mono question. Installing single packages from 
Wheezy on Squeeze likely won't work, certainly not with what looks like 
pinning and apt-get's resolver. aptitude might be able to unravel the 
dependency chain enough, but you'll end up basically half upgraded to 
Wheezy.