[R-sig-Debian] Outdated r-base-core when installing on Ubuntu 14.04

[ProfJCNash]

Probably should add that my machine has Michael's PPA

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rrutter/ubuntu trusty main

as well. That could, of course, be how I got 3.2.4.

If I get a chance later today, I'll try a VirtualBox VM with a clean
Ubuntu 14.04.

JN

On 16-03-21 02:04 PM, ProfJCNash wrote:
> Since 14.04 is the Long Term Support version, which also is used by
> Linux Mint, it's not really outdated, and a lot of folk, myself
> included, use that stream (my machine says Linux Mint 17.1, but I think
> that is simply the splash screen). I say stream, because the kernel and
> other infrastructure are  being updated, though probably not to the
> level Dirk prefers, and I do use other distros for some work. My own
> sources.list includes
> 
> deb http://cran.stat.sfu.ca/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/
> 
> and R updated fine to 3.2.4 last week with a typical automated prompt
> that there were updates available.
> 
> So maybe Matt's problem is something else. This was the first time I'd
> read about crouton (I run regular Linux distros). Is that getting in the
> way somehow?
> 
> JN
> 
> 
> 
> On 16-03-21 01:35 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>>
>> On 21 March 2016 at 12:10, Matthew Simpson wrote:
>> | I have a chromebook with a fresh minimal install of Ubuntu 14.04 running
>> | through crouton, and I'm trying to install the latest version of R. The
>> | only thing I have done to the system before trying to install R is install
>> | gedit. When I try to install R I get an unmet dependencies error that
>> | complains that the version of r-base-core available isn't new enough.
>> | 
>> | I followed the instructions at
>> | https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html to install R. Here
>> | is precisely what I did:
>> | 
>> | 1) after installing gedit, I added the following two lines to
>> | /etc/apt/sources.list
>> | 
>> | deb http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/
>> | deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ trusty-backports main restricted
>> | universe
>> | 
>> | (Note: I've tried a couple different R mirrors and it doesn't affect
>> | anything as far as I can
>> | tell)
>> | 
>> | 2) Add Michael Rutter's key with
>> | 
>> | sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E084DAB9
>> | 
>> | 3) Update sources and attempt to install R:
>> | 
>> | sudo apt-get update
>> | sudo apt-get install r-base
>> | 
>> | Here is the full text of the error I get:
>> | 
>> | sudo apt-get install r-base
>> | Reading package lists... Done
>> | Building dependency tree
>> | Reading state information... 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.
>> | The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>> | 
>> | The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>> |  r-base : Depends: r-base-core (>= 3.2.4-revised-1trusty0) but it is not
>> | going to be installed
>> |           Depends: r-recommended (= 3.2.4-revised-1trusty0) but it is not
>> | going to be installed
>> |           Recommends: r-base-html but it is not going to be installed
>> |           Recommends: r-doc-html but it is not going to be installed
>> | E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>> | 
>> | 
>> | Using sudo apt-cache showpkg <package> reveals that apt is attempting to
>> | install r-base 3.2.4, but only has access to r-base-core 3.0.2.  It does
>> | have access to r-recommended, r-base-html, and r-doc-html all version 3.2.4
>> | though.
>>
>> Then something is wrong with your apt entries. Check and double check.
>>
>> I run wily here (because why would I want to be on an almost two year old
>> OS?) and it looks as follows:
>>
>> edd at max:~$ apt-cache policy r-base
>> r-base:
>>   Installed: (none)
>>   Candidate: 3.2.4-revised-1wily0
>>   Version table:
>>      3.2.4-revised-1wily0 0
>>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ wily/ Packages
>>      3.2.4-1wily 0
>>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ wily/ Packages
>>      3.2.3-6wily0 0
>>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ wily/ Packages
>>      3.2.3-4wily0 0
>>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ wily/ Packages
>>      3.2.3-3wily0 0
>>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ wily/ Packages
>>      3.2.3-1.wily.0 0
>>         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/edd/misc/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
>>      3.2.3-1wily1 0
>>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ wily/ Packages
>>      3.2.3-1wily0 0
>>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ wily/ Packages
>>      3.2.2-1wily 0
>>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ wily/ Packages
>>      3.2.2-1 0
>>         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe amd64 Packages
>> edd at max:~$ 
>>
>> I could have 3.2.2 from the distro -- which makes sense as 15.10 had a cutoff
>> some time last summer -- all the other thanks to Michael rebuilding the ports
>> of why I stick into Debian.
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>> | 
>> | I could probably live with R 3.0.2, but sudo apt-get install r-base=3.0.2
>> | yields a similar error complaining that it needs r-recommended 3.0.2, but
>> | it won't be installed.
>> | 
>> | Any help would be appreciated.
>> | 
>> | Thanks,
>> | Matt Simpson
>> | 
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