On 21 March 2016 at 12:10, Matthew Simpson wrote: | 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.
Then something is wrong with your apt entries. Check and double check. I run wily here (because why would I want to be on an almost two year old OS?) and it looks as follows: edd@max:~$ apt-cache policy r-base r-base: Installed: (none) Candidate: 3.2.4-revised-1wily0 Version table: 3.2.4-revised-1wily0 0 500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ wily/ Packages 3.2.4-1wily 0 500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ wily/ Packages 3.2.3-6wily0 0 500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ wily/ Packages 3.2.3-4wily0 0 500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ wily/ Packages 3.2.3-3wily0 0 500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ wily/ Packages 3.2.3-1.wily.0 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/edd/misc/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages 3.2.3-1wily1 0 500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ wily/ Packages 3.2.3-1wily0 0 500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ wily/ Packages 3.2.2-1wily 0 500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ wily/ Packages 3.2.2-1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe amd64 Packages edd@max:~$ I could have 3.2.2 from the distro -- which makes sense as 15.10 had a cutoff some time last summer -- all the other thanks to Michael rebuilding the ports of why I stick into Debian. Dirk | | 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 -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian