I have a chromebook with a fresh minimal install of Ubuntu 14.04 running through crouton, and I'm trying to install the latest version of R. The only thing I have done to the system before trying to install R is install gedit. When I try to install R I get an unmet dependencies error that complains that the version of r-base-core available isn't new enough.
I followed the instructions at https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html to install R. Here is precisely what I did: 1) after installing gedit, I added the following two lines to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/ deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ trusty-backports main restricted universe (Note: I've tried a couple different R mirrors and it doesn't affect anything as far as I can tell) 2) Add Michael Rutter's key with sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E084DAB9 3) Update sources and attempt to install R: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install r-base Here is the full text of the error I get: sudo apt-get install r-base 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: r-base : Depends: r-base-core (>= 3.2.4-revised-1trusty0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: r-recommended (= 3.2.4-revised-1trusty0) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: r-base-html but it is not going to be installed Recommends: r-doc-html but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Using sudo apt-cache showpkg <package> reveals that apt is attempting to install r-base 3.2.4, but only has access to r-base-core 3.0.2. It does have access to r-recommended, r-base-html, and r-doc-html all version 3.2.4 though. I could probably live with R 3.0.2, but sudo apt-get install r-base=3.0.2 yields a similar error complaining that it needs r-recommended 3.0.2, but it won't be installed. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Matt Simpson [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian