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

[MDLeide]

I'm attempting to install Mono on my new RPi. I've followed the instructions
provided, and searched extensively after hitting a road block, but I cannot
figure out what is wrong.

When I try
/sudo apt-get install mono-devel/

It returns a long list of unmet dependencies that will not be downloaded.
The same occurs with mono-complete, albeit with a short list of different
dependencies, though I'm pretty sure it is a super set of the devel list.

My sources in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-xamarin.list are:
*deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian wheezy main
deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian wheezy-apache24-compat
main*

I have added signing key via:
/sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys
3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF/

I am relatively new to UNIX-based systems, but it seems to me that APT
cannot resolve the dependency tree. Do packages generally contain a map that
can be used to discover and retrieve the libraries it depends on? I
understand APT to be a utility that abstracts away some of the finer details
of package management, so I imagine it has facilities to crawl a tree and
grab software as needed.

I understand that armhf support in mono is new-ish. I have read articles
that indicate you must compile from source to get a working binary, but
these are outdated and nearly all of them contain comments or updates
indicating that is no longer required, and the public packages should work.
Am I mistaken?

One more bit of info: I found a package that was put together and made
available, advertised to circumvent these exact problems. I was able to
install the package, but any command passed to mono, including --version,
would result in an Invalid Operation (exact wording might be off).


Please don't make me learn a new language. 
I like C#, it's fast and easy to develop in, and all the hard work has
already been done and packaged into the .NET framework. 
:)



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