Hi, I am running a dual-booted Ubuntu 16.04 from a USB stick and having problems installing R. I have been following the steps at this site: https://www.datascienceriot.com/how-to-install-r-in-linux-ubuntu-16-04-xenial-xerus/kris/ Below is the the output and the commands from the terminal:
sudo echo "deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list [sudo] password for atakan: deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E084DAB9 gpg: requesting key E084DAB9 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg: key E084DAB9: "Michael Rutter <marut...@gmail.com>" not changed gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: unchanged: 1 gpg -a --export E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add - OK sudo apt-get update Hit:1 http://tr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease Hit:3 http://tr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://tr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease Hit:5 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ InRelease Reading package lists... Done W: Target Packages (Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:57 W: Target Translations (en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:57 W: Target Translations (en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:57 W: Target Packages (Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:58 W: Target Translations (en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:58 W: Target Translations (en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:58 W: Target Packages (Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:59 W: Target Translations (en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:59 W: Target Translations (en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:59 W: Target Packages (Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:57 W: Target Translations (en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:57 W: Target Translations (en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:57 W: Target Packages (Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:58 W: Target Translations (en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:58 W: Target Translations (en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:58 W: Target Packages (Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:59 W: Target Translations (en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:59 W: Target Translations (en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:54 and /etc/apt/sources.list:59 sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev 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 (>= 3.3.0-1xenial0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: r-recommended (= 3.3.0-1xenial0) 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 (>= 3.3.0-1xenial0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: gfortran but it is not going to be installed Depends: libblas-dev but it is not going to be installed or libatlas-base-dev 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 going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Any help is appreciated, thanks. Atakan Okan _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
