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

[G. Jay Kerns]

Dear Michael,

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On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Michael Rutter <mar36 at psu.edu> wrote:

> 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
> --
> Dr. Michael A. Rutter
> School of Science
> Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
> Station Road
> Erie, PA 16563
> http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter
>

I am 100% sure that your second possibility (update failed to finish)
is what happened with my system. Thanks for the tip; I will make sure
to do sudo dpkg --configure -a in the future.

Jay