[Rd] installing spam package is failing (spam_0.29-1)

[chuckles the clone]

also, it does not help to remove and re-install r-base. as far as apt-get is
concerned, version 2.13.1 is the latest.

# apt-get --purge remove r-base-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  r-base-dev*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
After this operation, 36.9 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 47129 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing r-base-dev ...

# apt-get --purge remove r-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  gfortran-4.6 libblas-dev libxml-parser-perl patchutils libncurses5-dev
cdbs
  libreadline6-dev libpcrecpp0 intltool liblapack-dev libtinfo-dev
  python-scour gfortran libpcre3-dev dh-translations libjpeg62-dev dpatch
  libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libpng12-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  r-base*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
After this operation, 77.8 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 47126 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing r-base ...

# apt-get install r-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  gfortran-4.6 libblas-dev libxml-parser-perl patchutils libncurses5-dev
cdbs
  libreadline6-dev libpcrecpp0 intltool liblapack-dev libtinfo-dev
  python-scour gfortran libpcre3-dev dh-translations libjpeg62-dev dpatch
  libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libpng12-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  ess r-doc-info r-doc-pdf
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  r-base
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/9,560 B of archives.
After this operation, 77.8 kB of additional disk space will be used.
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell
buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
Selecting previously deselected package r-base.
(Reading database ... 47122 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking r-base (from .../r-base_2.13.1-1_all.deb) ...
Setting up r-base (2.13.1-1) ...
# apt-get install r-base-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  r-base-dev
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/3,546 B of archives.
After this operation, 36.9 kB of additional disk space will be used.
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell
buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
Selecting previously deselected package r-base-dev.
(Reading database ... 47126 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking r-base-dev (from .../r-base-dev_2.13.1-1_all.deb) ...
Setting up r-base-dev (2.13.1-1) ...
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