On 23 March 2016 at 12:35, Barnet Wagman wrote: | One of the dependency problems I'm having is: | | gfortran-4.8 : Depends: gcc-4.8-base (= 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) but | 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1 is installed. | | I'm not sure how to interpret this. Does this mean that the gfortran | installed is too recent? If so, does R really require an older version | of gfortran, or is this related to the way the r-base-core package is | specified?
That is more promising and probably related to the liblapack/libblas issue! With a bit of 'apt-cache policy' on these you may be able to find where they are from; and you need the ones that R wants into order to use R. Sometimes you get by specifying both as in $ sudo apt-get install gfortran-4.8 gcc-4.8-base ie asking for both to be (re-)installed. That may point to another package, and you may have to recurse once or twice more. As Alex correctly pointed out, this is quite possibly due to the other backports. I "own" Docker setup involving Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, but rarely add anything besides CRAN in those (by design more minimal) setups. Lastly, and please don't take this the wrong way: I think I am helping way more people like you who for one reason or other insist on older / frozen system like 14.04 but then desire newer software. Simply running _current_ Ubuntu and upgrading every six months is IMHO much easier. I've been doing it for a decade on lots of machines across home and different workplaces. YMMV, but it may be worth considering to just upgrade. gcc and g++ 5.2 are much nicer anyway :) Dirk -- 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
