Hi Prasenjit: thanks. Here's what I found. There's only one line in sources.list that's not Dell-mini specific and it is
deb http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu hardy/ If I understand the output and asked correctly -- /etc/apt/preferences does not exist ("no such file or directory"). But my goodness, look at the output to your third question! Thanks. Judson r-base: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.9.0-2hardy0 Version table: 2.9.0-2hardy0 0 500 http://lib.stat.cmu.edu hardy/ Packages 2.6.2-2 0 500 http://dell-mini.archive.canonical.com hardy/universe Packages r-base-core: Installed: 2.6.2-2 Candidate: 2.6.2-2 Version table: *** 2.6.2-2 0 500 http://dell-mini.archive.canonical.com hardy/universe Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status r-recommended: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.9.0-2hardy0 Version table: 2.9.0-2hardy0 0 500 http://lib.stat.cmu.edu hardy/ Packages 2.6.2-2 0 500 http://dell-mini.archive.canonical.com hardy/universe Pack On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Prasenjit Kapat <kap...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Judson <judson0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I don't mind using sudo apt-get update/upgrade/install buit I get into >> crazy loops (hours) that clearly can't be trusted. But when I use >> Synaptic (reload/mark for install R-base) every time I get some list >> of things things it want to install as well and syas "Mark" which it >> does not do and when I go forward with the Synaptic install of R-base >> I get this (and abort) every time: >> >> r-base: >> Depends: r-base-core (>=2.9.0-2hardy0) but 2.6.2-2 is to be installed >> Depends: r-recommended but it is not going to be installed >> >> I cannot get a pre-install of either of these. I got greedy a week >> ago and tried to install R_2.9.0 over my R_2.6.2-2 and now I have >> nothing. I have a Dell-Mini Ubuntu 8.04 for 15 days. I don't get it. >> Any ideas? I'm embarrassed to say this is my second trip through on >> R (to this forum). Thanks. > > This should rarely happen. Can you copy paste only the lines that > start with "deb " from /etc/apt/sources.list and any other relevant > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list files. Also provide > /etc/apt/preferences, if it exists. > > While you are at it, what does the following show: > > $ apt-cache policy r-base r-base-core r-recommended > > -- > Prasenjit > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian