[R] Ubuntu 2.9.2 packages broken for amd64

[Ivan Adzhubey]

Hi Dirk,

Thank you for your prompt reply. The issue has been actually resolved in just 
a few hours after I posted it. Many apologies for being too impatient!

Best,
Ivan

On Thursday 17 September 2009 10:15:04 pm Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Ivan,
> 
> On 17 September 2009 at 21:22, Ivan Adzhubey wrote:
> | Attempt to install R 2.9.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 results in errors:
> |
> | $ sudo apt-get install r-base
> | 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 (>= 2.9.2-2jaunty1) but 2.9.2-2jaunty0 is
> | to be installed
> |           Depends: r-recommended (= 2.9.2-2jaunty1) but it is not going
> | to be installed
> | E: Broken packages
> |
> | This was on amd64 system. I have tried several mirrors and the same error
> | persisted. Inspecting package repos by eye shows r-*-2.9.2-2jaunty1
> | packages for amd64 architecture are missing while they are present for
> | i386.
> 
> I noticed that too and spoke with Vincent and Michael -- this should get
> sorted out 'soon'.  It is due to the non-binary packages being ready from
>  the i386 build but being dependent on the corresponding amd64 packages
>  which are not there yet.
> 
> As a one-off alternative, you could preview the packages we prepared for
>  the upcoming Ubuntu 9.10 release. See this page
> 	    https://launchpad.net/~revor/+archive/ppa
> for details and the sources.list entry. These contain some REvolution R
> enhancements.  I run those on amd64 at work, and they do install and run
>  just fine :)
> 
> Lastly, r-sig-debian is a better list for this. I just caught your post by
> chance.
> 
> Regards,  Dirk
>