[R] PlayStation3 with Ubuntu 9.10. revolution-r: Depends: r-revolution-revobase but it is not installable

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 6 January 2010 at 19:03, Steve Mew wrote:
| PlayStation3 with Ubuntu 9.10.  revolution-r: Depends: r-revolution-revobase
| but it is not installable
| 
| Hi All,
| I have a PlayStation3 setup with Ubuntu 9.10.
| Install R went fine with     "sudo apt-get install r-base-core"
| I then attempted to install Revolution packages with "sudo apt-get install
| revolution-r"
| 
| This failed with the following error :
| 
| *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:
|   revolution-r: Depends: r-revolution-revobase but it is not installable
| E: Broken packages*
| 
| Does anyone have any suggestions ?

Yes -- The r-revolution-revobase package depends on the revolution-mkl
package which contains the Intel MKL optimised / accelerated linear algebra
and math libraries ("blas" in common parlance, and more like fft).

To the best of my knowledge, these were only provided in i386 and amd64 form.
This is confirmed by looking at 
     
     https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/revolution-mkl
     https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/r-revolution-revobase

The real issue is that Intel guards the IP of these MKL sources rather
carefully and did not provide direct source code access.  Only i386 and amd64
binaries were produced and users on other hardware -- like you -- are out in
the cold.  I have no immediate suggestion as you cannot rebuild these without
sources.

So your best bet may be to point at CRAN's Ubuntu archive
(e.g. http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu) and to fetch the sources
for the current R (now at R 2.10.1) and to rebuild it on your platform.  That
sidesteps the r-revolution-revobase / revolution-mkl Depends: issue you
cannot solve.

The r-sig-debian list is for Debian / Ubuntu questions and probably a good
place for follow-up questions.

Cheers, Dirk

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