[R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu 10.04 and R: dependency problems

[Michael Rutter]

On 07/13/2011 12:51 PM, Brad Schneid wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but please help if
> you can.
>
> I have Ubuntu 10.04 OS and was running
> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
> Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
>
> I recently had problems using install.packages() to get 'maps' and 'mapproj'
>
>
> anyway, long story short- I used synaptic package manager to remove all
> R-related items.
> When I reinstall it I get errors (see below).
>
> I was actually getting similar errors when I tried to get the 'original awk'
> package before I removed R
> *like I said, there is a long story there.
> Does anyone know what is going on, or what I should do without further
> elaboration?
>
>
> ## errors when installing R via Synaptic
> E: r-base-core: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error
> exit status 10
> E: r-base-dev: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> E: r-cran-boot: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> E: r-cran-mass: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> E: r-cran-class: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> E: r-cran-cluster: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> E: r-cran-codetools: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> E: r-cran-foreign: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> E: r-cran-kernsmooth: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> E: r-cran-lattice: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> E: r-cran-matrix: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> E: r-cran-nlme: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> E: r-cran-mgcv: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> E: r-cran-nnet: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> E: r-cran-survival: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> E: r-cran-rpart: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> E: r-cran-spatial: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> E: r-recommended: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>
>
> thanks ahead of time for any insight.

Brad,

Try:

sudo apt-get -f install

This will attempt to fix all the dependencies and finish the install.

Michael

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