[R-sig-Debian] [R] need help for building R in Ubuntu 8.04

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:18:34AM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:
> Thanks a lot, Doug and Dirk,
> for 'wajig'.
> 
> I didn't know it but now plan to use it as well.
> 
> One thing though (wajig or apt-get or aptitude):
> 
>     apt-get build-dep r-base
> 
> has a bit a seemingly undesired effect on my ubuntu 8.04 system:
> 
>     Reading package lists... Done
>     Building dependency tree       
>     Reading state information... Done
>     The following packages will be REMOVED:
>       atlas3-base-dev atlas3-headers r-base-dev refblas3-dev
>     The following NEW packages will be installed:
>       debhelper gettext html2text intltool-debian libblas-dev po-debconf
>     0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 4 to remove and 83 not upgraded.
>     2 not fully installed or removed.
>     Need to get 3181kB of archives.
>     After this operation, 28.3MB disk space will be freed.
>     Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
> 
> I really don't think I'd want to remove r-base-dev and its
> dependencies just because I want to get the remaining tools for 
> building R (r-base) from the sources.
> 
> Is there still a misunderstanding (on my side) ?

No that looks like a bug, err, mis-feature.  Possibly just in Ubuntu.

And it is possibly due to the fact that Ubuntu has atlas-* packages
whereas Debian now has libatlas*. Not sure.

Dirk

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