Hello, I need a specific version of R installed for consistency reasons. I do the standard setup steps:
echo "deb https://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E084DAB9 sudo apt-get update And then a simple install call, which used to work just fine some time ago, tosses an error: ubuntu@test:~$ sudo apt-get -y install r-base=3.4.2-1trusty1 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-recommended (= 3.4.2-1trusty1) but 3.4.3-1trusty0 is 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. The problem is highlighted in this error - r-recommended seems to auto-default to 3.4.3. When installing r-base-core=3.4.2-1trusty1 by itself, it installs fine. When installing r-recommended=3.4.2-1trusty1 by itself, it sneakily installs 3.4.3 without saying anything. When trying to install r-base=3.4.2-1trusty1, it catches this cognitive dissonance and falls on its face. Some help please? Sincerely, Krzysztof -- The Wellcome Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
