I am unable to install R on an up to date (i.e. apt upgraded) Ubuntu 14.04 system. According to https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README (and many other sources), R is available for this version of Ubuntu (which is a stable version).
I currently have deb https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/ in sources.list. I've tried this with and without deb https:// mirrors.rit.edu/ubuntu trusty-backports main restricted universe I've tried installing using apt-get , aptitude, and synaptic. (I have, of course, run apt-get update.) All hit problems they cannot resolve (listed below). I'd appreciate any thoughts on this. I've installed R on many linux distributions in the past (suse, redhat, debian, most recently elementary os) and never run into anything like this before. (I'm getting desperate enough to consider building R from src, but as I recall getting the right libraries installed isn't that easy). Using apt-get install, I get the error message: 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 r-base-dev : Depends: r-base-core (>= 3.2.4-revised-1trusty0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: gfortran but it is not going to be installed Depends: liblapack-dev but it is not going to be installed or libatlas-base-dev but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Using aptitude: root@bwud:/home/moi# aptitude install r-base The following NEW packages will be installed: cdbs{a} dh-translations{a} gfortran{a} gfortran-4.8{ab} libblas-dev{a} libblas3{a} libbz2-dev{a} libgfortran-4.8-dev{ab} libgfortran3{ab} libjpeg-dev{a} libjpeg-turbo8-dev{a} libjpeg8-dev{a} liblapack-dev{a} liblapack3{a} liblzma-dev{a} libncurses5-dev{a} libpcre3-dev{a} libpcrecpp0{a} libpng12-dev{a} libreadline-dev{a} libreadline6-dev{a} libtinfo-dev{a} python-scour{a} r-base r-base-core{a} r-base-dev{a} r-base-html{a} r-cran-boot{a} r-cran-class{a} r-cran-cluster{a} r-cran-codetools{a} r-cran-foreign{a} r-cran-kernsmooth{a} r-cran-lattice{a} r-cran-mass{a} r-cran-matrix{a} r-cran-mgcv{a} r-cran-nlme{a} r-cran-nnet{a} r-cran-rpart{a} r-cran-spatial{a} r-cran-survival{a} r-doc-html{a} r-recommended{a} zlib1g-dev{a} 0 packages upgraded, 45 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 47.8 MB of archives. After unpacking 105 MB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: gfortran-4.8 : Depends: gcc-4.8-base (= 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) but 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1 is installed. Depends: gcc-4.8 (= 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) but 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1 is installed. libgfortran3 : Depends: gcc-4.8-base (= 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) but 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1 is installed. libgfortran-4.8-dev : Depends: gcc-4.8-base (= 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) but 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1 is installed. Depends: libgcc-4.8-dev (= 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) but 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1 is installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Keep the following packages at their current version: 1) gfortran [Not Installed] 2) gfortran-4.8 [Not Installed] 3) libgfortran-4.8-dev [Not Installed] 4) libgfortran3 [Not Installed] 5) liblapack-dev [Not Installed] 6) liblapack3 [Not Installed] 7) r-base [Not Installed] 8) r-base-core [Not Installed] 9) r-base-dev [Not Installed] 10) r-base-html [Not Installed] 11) r-cran-boot [Not Installed] 12) r-cran-class [Not Installed] 13) r-cran-cluster [Not Installed] 14) r-cran-codetools [Not Installed] 15) r-cran-foreign [Not Installed] 16) r-cran-kernsmooth [Not Installed] 17) r-cran-lattice [Not Installed] 18) r-cran-mass [Not Installed] 19) r-cran-matrix [Not Installed] 20) r-cran-mgcv [Not Installed] 21) r-cran-nlme [Not Installed] 22) r-cran-nnet [Not Installed] 23) r-cran-rpart [Not Installed] 24) r-cran-spatial [Not Installed] 25) r-cran-survival [Not Installed] 26) r-recommended [Not Installed] Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Y No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. thanks [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian