[R-sig-Debian] R install in Ubuntu maverick issues

[Michael Rutter]

On 11/02/2010 09:01 AM, Valentin Constantinescu wrote:
> Thanks. I thought that apt-get will get these dependencies automatically and
> I think is something broken in there.
> That is why I send the message.
> For the moment I just installed the lucid version so I can start learning
> it.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> On 2 November 2010 13:52, G. Jay Kerns<gkerns at ysu.edu>  wrote:
>
>> Dear Valentin,
>>
>> You can get that version of libzma2 from here
>>
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/hu/maverick/i386/liblzma2
>>
>> or here
>>
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/hu/maverick/amd64/liblzma2
>>
>> and install it manually (say, with the GDebi package installer).  Then
>> R will install without any more trouble.
>>
>> I hope that this helps,
>> Jay
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Valentin Constantinescu
>> <valentin at capia.no>  wrote:
>>> I am trying to install the maverick version. The lucid version works
>>> flawlessly, but this one promts this messages.
>>>
>>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>>   r-base: Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.12.0-1maverick0) but it is not going
>> to
>>> be installed
>>>          Depends: r-recommended (= 2.12.0-1maverick0) but it is not going
>>> to be installed
>>>          Recommends: r-base-html but it is not going to be installed
>>>
>>>
>>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>>   r-base-core: Depends: liblzma2 (>= 4.999.9beta+20091116) but it is not
>>> installable
>>> E: Broken packages

Valentin,

While Jay's solution works, there should be no need to download a 
version of liblzma2 manually, as the correct version is contained within 
the default maverick repositories.  Not sure why your system is not 
finding the package, but there are a couple of possibilities.  The first 
is that your /etc/apt/sources.list file has an error, a line being 
commented out accidentally, for example.  Another possibility is that a 
previous update (of any ubuntu package, not just R) failed to finish. 
Try 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' from the command line to make sure all 
updates and installs have properly finished.

Hope this helps,
Michael
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