Probably should add that my machine has Michael's PPA deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rrutter/ubuntu trusty main
as well. That could, of course, be how I got 3.2.4. If I get a chance later today, I'll try a VirtualBox VM with a clean Ubuntu 14.04. JN On 16-03-21 02:04 PM, ProfJCNash wrote: > Since 14.04 is the Long Term Support version, which also is used by > Linux Mint, it's not really outdated, and a lot of folk, myself > included, use that stream (my machine says Linux Mint 17.1, but I think > that is simply the splash screen). I say stream, because the kernel and > other infrastructure are being updated, though probably not to the > level Dirk prefers, and I do use other distros for some work. My own > sources.list includes > > deb http://cran.stat.sfu.ca/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/ > > and R updated fine to 3.2.4 last week with a typical automated prompt > that there were updates available. > > So maybe Matt's problem is something else. This was the first time I'd > read about crouton (I run regular Linux distros). Is that getting in the > way somehow? > > JN > > > > On 16-03-21 01:35 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
