[R-sig-Debian] Conflict between octave3.0-headers and r-base-dev

[Gad Abraham]

Vincent Goulet wrote:
> Le mar. 12 août à 14:44, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
> 
>>
>> Gad,
>>
>> Thanks for the bug report and for using the appropriate list for it.
>>
>> On 12 August 2008 at 14:31, Gad Abraham wrote:
>> | Hi,
>> |
>> | I'm using Ubuntu Hardy i386, and the R 2.7.1 Ubuntu packages from CRAN.
>> |
>> | The CRAN r-base-dev package depends on refblas3-dev or atlas3-base-dev,
>> | but octave3.0-headers depends on libblas-dev. The two blas packages 
>> seem
>> | to conflict, so r-base-dev and octave3.0-headers can't be installed
>> | together.
>> |
>> | Is this a known issue?
>>
>> Maybe not, and looks like the Depends for r-base-dev need to be 
>> updated to
>> reflect the newer library names.  Unfortunately, 'everybody' is at 
>> Dortmund
>> this week for UseR but I already mentioned this to Vincent.
>>
>> On Debian we have 'libblas-dev | libatlas-base-dev, liblapack-dev |
>> libatlas-base-dev' but that, I think, wasn't possible for Vincent and 
>> Ubuntu as the
>> newer atlas/blas packages had not yet migrated.  I think he can simply 
>> stop
>> changed 'down' to the older refblas choice.
> 
> [Note: I already had this discussion in person with Dirk, but we'll do 
> as if not for the purpose of the list.]
> 
> I'm puzzled here. In the comments of my build script I specifically 
> mention that the libblas-dev and liblapack-dev backports are required 
> for Ubuntu releases <= Hardy, which I assume meant that I checked it was 
> actually needed back in April (when Hardy was released). In any case, it 
> looks like I goofed here.
> 
> I did build a version of 2.7.1-2 successfully without the said 
> backports. However, I am reluctant to put it on CRAN for now for two 
> main reasons: 1) it's not really tested; and 2) it doesn't appear to be 
> an important update for most people. Oh, and 3) 2.7.2 is due out in 
> about two weeks.
> 
> What you can do, Gad, is to first install libblas-dev and liblapack-dev 
> on you system (this should remove a number of other packages, including 
> R) and then install the .deb packages located here:
> 
>     http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/pub/R/bin/linux/hardy-test/
> 
> Fetch all the files in the above directory and manually install with
> 
>     sudo dpkg -i *.deb
> 
> (Assuming the downloaded files are the only .deb files in your current 
> directory, of course.)
> 
> Play a little bit with all this and *please* report if everything is 
> working as expected or not.

Hi Vincent,

I've installed these debs, played around with R, compiled some R 
packages from source, and so far, it works perfectly.

Thanks!
Gad

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Gad Abraham
Dept. CSSE and NICTA
The University of Melbourne
Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia
email: gabraham at csse.unimelb.edu.au
web: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~gabraham