Two machines stuck on Installing Updates (at the same point)

[Xorcist]

I'll keep my eye on it for future updates and see if I can narrow it down. I'll post in this thread if I get more info.

[avj]

I am no expert, but the first thing that sticks out to me is that you have debian repositories in your sources. As far as I am aware this is a bad idea.
more info here:  https://askubuntu.com/a/346741

from a link at the above answer, "If you added Debian's experimental software sources to your Ubuntu system, they would almost always have higher-versioned packages than provided by the Ubuntu software sources (since most Ubuntu packages come from Debian). Consequently all the software in your system would be upgraded to the Debian experimental versions. This upgrade process would very likely fail, leaving your system or the package manager in a non-functional state."

As far as I know this applies to all packages from debian repositories being used in Ubuntu and Ubuntu based operating systems.

[Xorcist]

Oh wow, I wasn't aware of that.

Unfortunately I needed the lastest version of MonoDevelop (so I followed the instructions below):

http://www.mono-project.com/docs/getting...all/linux/

I'm assuming those are the debian packages you are refering to.

[avj]

These are the sources I was referring to:

Hit http://download.mono-project.com wheezy/main i386 Packages
Hit http://download.mono-project.com wheezy-apache24-compat/main i386 Packages

Just from personal experience every time I tried to mix sources from Debian to Ubuntu, I was left with a broken system.

[rokytnji]

avj is right you know. But it is your box. Already you suffer from poisoning the well.

  Edit the repository sources list  This is an optional, labor intensive method. Do this at your own risk. Modify the default Ubuntu sources.list only if you understand what you're doing.  Mixing repositories can break your system.

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[Xorcist]

Well I definitely don't want to hose my OS, the whole point of installing MonoDevelop in the first place was to continue to develop .NET applications, but under Linux (since I don't intend to continue using Windows beyond Windows 7, but I still need to develop for it). Since these are new installations of Linux Lite, I can redo them without too much impact. Would that be the recommended process? or is there a way to roll back from my current MonoDevelop installation and then install an older one from the default repositories.

[rokytnji]

Just wondering? Not pretending to understand what you are needing either. Being a Linux using biker and all.
But have you looked at

https://github.com/dotnet

That is where Microsoft is porting .net to be able to be worked on in Linux.

Announcing .NET 2015 - .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux, and Visual Studio Community[img height=436 width=800]http://www.hanselman.com/blog/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Announcing-.NET-in-your-Editor-of-Choice_E16B/image_3379f52c-2764-4a61-8b29-7bff2dc68dde.png[/img]

[size=2em]Edit: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/monodevelop


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[Xorcist]

Yeah the official Ubuntu 14.04 PPAs will let me install MonoDevelop v4.0, but it's a bit old. The current version is v5.9 and there have been many bug fixes and feature editions since v4.0. I could always attempt to build it from source (but that's another bag of worms). A friend recommended I search across LauchPad.net fist , and I found this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~ermshiperete/+arc...velop-beta

which appears to include v5.9.0.431 built for 14.04 (trusty).

Still being new to Linux, I figured I'd ask you guys if that seems like a legit way to get the software I need without having to build it myself.


** Strangely enough, the repo listed above is listed as obsolete, and then points to the original instructions I followed that had me add the Debian PPAs to my system...

[rokytnji]

* Strangely enough, the repo listed above is listed as obsolete, and then points to the original instructions I followed that had me add the Debian PPAs to my system...

I guess the maintainer has other issues in life.

Latest updates

  mono-4 , 21 weeks ago
    Successfully built

Reminds me of Sis, Savage, Via, graphics driver maintainer also.
Sadly, we are few and far between. I used to maintain pianobar for Puppy Linux users till I got burned out doing it every week trying to keep up with pandora breaking it on purpose. 

[torreydale]

In the subject of this thread, can you change the word "suck" to "stuck"?