[R-sig-Debian] Suspected Bug with " bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/" installation

[Michael Rutter]

John,

Sorry for the delay, but your email only appeared in my mailbox today.

Are you using x86 or amd64?

Have you tried "sudo apt-get -f install"?  This may fix the problem and 
allow "sudo apt-get install r-base".

Michael

John Wilkinson wrote:
> Dear r-sig Debian list,
> 
> I subscribe to the 'r-help' forum but as requested on the "Download and
> Install" section of CRAN I am reporting a suspected bug on the
> 
>    " bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/"
> 
> installation binaries, I show an extract from my Ubuntu(dapper)
> terminal console below----
> 
> # Attempted unsuccessful installation copy from terminal--
> 
> root at ubup:/etc/apt# sudo apt-get update
> root at ubup:/etc/apt# sudo apt-get install r-base
> 
> ..........downloaded text etcetera........................
> 
> .......... downloaded text etcetera....................
> "
> Building dependency tree... 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.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> against that package should be filed.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies.
> 
>   r-base: Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.7.2-1dapper0)
> but it is not going to be installed
>           Depends: r-recommended (= 2.7.2-1dapper0)
> but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> "
> #end of terminal quote (under scored text added by me).
> 				^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> My fist unsuccessful attempt was from the mirror
> http://cran.uk.r-project.org   (29th August update)
> 
> I noticed that the CRAN site was more upto-date so my second failed attempt
> was (from changed rescources.list) to--
> http://cran.r-project.org       (1st September update)
> 
> I received the identical messages (quoted above) in both cases.
> 
> I also noticed,later, that 'synaptic' would not allow me to select
>  "r-base" alone and its icon was not dark green as I expected; having
> successfully installed 'Ubuntu-dapper-drake' on previous occaisions using
> the same regular installation code.
> 
> It seems to me as though 'r-base' is behaving as a wrapper rather tnan a
> stand-alone installation binary.
> 
> Can you help me with this download/installation  please?
> 
> John Wilkinson
> [jnwilks at btinternet.com]
> 
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