Re: [R] R installation Ubuntu 18.04 missing dependency libreadline6

2019-03-03 Thread John Kane
Thanks Rui, Depending on how I try to install I get a different error. I am starting to think that somehow the Ubuntu installation may be faulty. I used a ISO that I had burned about a year ago. I had no problem then with a shared installation but who knows. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get

Re: [R] R installation Ubuntu 18.04 missing dependency libreadline6

2019-03-03 Thread John Kane via R-help
Cancel my mailing that source.list. to r-sig-debian.  I took one last look at the sources.list file and realised that I had the same repository repeated. I had read it as being commented out but it was not. Delete one line and I was fine.  Nothing like blindness! I must have scanned that thing

Re: [R] R installation Ubuntu 18.04 missing dependency libreadline6

2019-03-03 Thread John Kane via R-help
Will do. Thanks.  On Sunday, March 3, 2019, 3:59:14 p.m. EST, Ista Zahn wrote: Hi John, This is not the place, but if you post your /etc/apt/sources.list to r-sig-debian I might be able to help you sort it out. Best, Ista On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 2:08 PM John Kane wrote: > > Thanks

Re: [R] R installation Ubuntu 18.04 missing dependency libreadline6

2019-03-03 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi John, This is not the place, but if you post your /etc/apt/sources.list to r-sig-debian I might be able to help you sort it out. Best, Ista On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 2:08 PM John Kane wrote: > > Thanks Ista, > > Interestingly enough, I have only one repository as far as I can see. I was a >

Re: [R] R installation Ubuntu 18.04 missing dependency libreadline6

2019-03-03 Thread John Kane via R-help
Thanks Ista, Interestingly enough, I have only one repository as far as I can see. I was a bit amazed. I think I have a faulty Ubuntu installation and will have to reinstall. What fun   On Sunday, March 3, 2019, 1:16:52 p.m. EST, Ista Zahn wrote: Hi John, The official instructions at

Re: [R] R installation Ubuntu 18.04 missing dependency libreadline6

2019-03-03 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi John, The official instructions at https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ work on a fresh ubuntu:bionic from dockerhub. This suggests that the issue is due to the configuration of your local system rather than with any problem with either R or ubuntu. My guess is that you've been reading

Re: [R] R installation Ubuntu 18.04 missing dependency libreadline6

2019-03-03 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, I never installed R on Ubuntu like you did it. I follow this: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install r-base sudo apt-get install r-base-dev And it works at the first try. See [1] The problems I [always] have are with missing Ubuntu libs needed by contributed packages, not with base

[R] R installation Ubuntu 18.04 missing dependency libreadline6

2019-03-03 Thread John Kane via R-help
NOTE. This is a re-post of a message of Saturday 2018-03-03 sent with an incorrect header. To upgrade to R.3.5.2 from 3.4.4 I have been following the instructions at https://www.r-bloggers.com/installation-of-r-3-5-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts-and-tips-for-spatial-packages/ . I seem to have the