Cannot install dotnet no matter what I try.

[tristonb2049]

Problem encountered on https://dotnet.microsoft.com/learn/dotnet/hello-world-tutorial/install
Operating System: Linux Ubuntu 19.04 - x64

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 dotnet-sdk-2.2 : Depends: aspnetcore-runtime-2.2 (>= 2.2.5) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: dotnet-runtime-2.2 (>= 2.2.5) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[tristonb2049]

Note: I'm running Mint 19.1, and have tried all of the ubuntu packages, as well as Debian just to be sure. All ended up with this same error.

[dagood]

Ubuntu 18.04's package seems like the one that will work for Mint 19.1. 18.04 has libicu60, which matches Mint 19.1's libicu60. Ubuntu 19.04 went on to libicu63.

(I used the linuxmintd/mint19-amd64 Docker image to check what Mint has, not completely sure if that's correct.)

The install error you're getting unfortunately doesn't give enough info to do anything about this, you have to follow the package dependency chain down manually to see what the root cause is. Can you run these for more info?

# This install command will show exactly which dependency can't be met.
sudo apt-get install dotnet-runtime-deps-2.2
# Shows the repositories you have configured. Source: https://askubuntu.com/a/741948
grep -r --include '*.list' '^deb ' /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

[tristonb2049]

Hey thanks for your reply! Fortunately I was able to fix it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54065894/cannot-install-net-core-2-2-on-ubuntu-18-04l with this stack over flow answer and get it installed! Thanks again!

[karelz]

Seems to be addressed, closing.