> I am moving this to r-sig-debian, and I encourage you to subscribe there. [ If > you do not subscribe, your mails will bounce. You are of course free to > contact us off-list too. ]
Thanks, and subscribed. > Not enough information here. It could simply be something else that is not R > related. > > What happens when you do > > sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade ~: sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Password: Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [191B] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [191B] Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release [50.9kB] Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release [50.9kB] Get:6 http://cran.r-project.org dapper/ Release.gpg [189B] Get:7 http://cran.r-project.org dapper/ Release [1325B] Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages [134kB] Ign http://cran.r-project.org dapper/ Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Sources Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Sources Get:9 http://cran.r-project.org dapper/ Packages [6486B] Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages [257kB] Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages [7544B] Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Sources [26.9kB] Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Sources [979B] Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Packages [84.7kB] Get:15 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Sources [11.2kB] Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages [5563B] Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Sources [71.2kB] Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Sources [979B] Fetched 710kB in 2s (351kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded: locales 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 3286kB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main locales 2.3.18.8 [3286kB] Fetched 3286kB in 5s (619kB/s) (Reading database ... 29945 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace locales 2.3.18.7 (using .../locales_2.3.18.8_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement locales ... Setting up locales (2.3.18.8) ... Generating locales... en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date Generation complete. Current default timezone: 'UTC'. Local time is now: Mon Jan 7 14:29:11 UTC 2008. Universal Time is now: Mon Jan 7 14:29:11 UTC 2008. Run 'tzconfig' if you wish to change it. which looks ok to me. > After that, try just the main R package to see what Depends: are claiming to > > sudo apt-get install r-base-core ~: install r-base-core Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Package r-base-core is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package r-base-core has no installation candidate Thanks, Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
