[R-sig-Debian] r-base installation fails on Ubuntu 14.04
Matthew Simpson
themattsimpson at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 18:13:04 CET 2016
I just essentially the same question on this mailing list and the problem
ended up being that my cpu's architecture was not supported by the ubuntu
releases (or any releases for that matter). I had to build R from source,
but it wasn't much headache.
The Ubuntu releases only support i386 and amd64 --- i.e. 32 bit & 64 bit
intel and amd cpus and not, e.g., the arm cpus that are becoming more
common in lower end laptops. On Debian there is an armel release, but not
an armhf release --- so if your cpu is armel you could switch to Debian to
avoid having to build from source.
Matt
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Barnet Wagman <bdwgen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am unable to install R on an up to date (i.e. apt upgraded) Ubuntu
> 14.04 system. According to
> https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README (and many other
> sources),
> R is available for this version of Ubuntu (which is a stable version).
>
> I currently have
>
> deb https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/
>
> in sources.list. I've tried this with and without
>
> deb https:// mirrors.rit.edu/ubuntu trusty-backports main
> restricted universe
>
> I've tried installing using apt-get , aptitude, and synaptic. (I have,
> of course, run apt-get update.) All hit problems they cannot resolve
> (listed below).
>
> I'd appreciate any thoughts on this. I've installed R on many linux
> distributions in the past (suse, redhat, debian, most recently
> elementary os) and never run into anything like this before. (I'm
> getting desperate enough to consider building R from src, but as I
> recall getting the right libraries installed isn't that easy).
>
> Using apt-get install, I get the error message:
>
> 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
> r-base-dev : Depends: r-base-core (>= 3.2.4-revised-1trusty0) but
> it is not going to be installed
> Depends: gfortran but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: liblapack-dev but it is not going to be
> installed or
> libatlas-base-dev but it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
> Using aptitude:
>
> root at bwud:/home/moi# aptitude install r-base
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> cdbs{a} dh-translations{a} gfortran{a} gfortran-4.8{ab}
> libblas-dev{a} libblas3{a} libbz2-dev{a} libgfortran-4.8-dev{ab}
> libgfortran3{ab}
> libjpeg-dev{a} libjpeg-turbo8-dev{a} libjpeg8-dev{a}
> liblapack-dev{a} liblapack3{a} liblzma-dev{a} libncurses5-dev{a}
> libpcre3-dev{a}
> libpcrecpp0{a} libpng12-dev{a} libreadline-dev{a}
> libreadline6-dev{a} libtinfo-dev{a} python-scour{a} r-base
> r-base-core{a} r-base-dev{a}
> r-base-html{a} r-cran-boot{a} r-cran-class{a} r-cran-cluster{a}
> r-cran-codetools{a} r-cran-foreign{a} r-cran-kernsmooth{a}
> r-cran-lattice{a} r-cran-mass{a} r-cran-matrix{a} r-cran-mgcv{a}
> r-cran-nlme{a} r-cran-nnet{a} r-cran-rpart{a} r-cran-spatial{a}
> r-cran-survival{a} r-doc-html{a} r-recommended{a} zlib1g-dev{a}
> 0 packages upgraded, 45 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 47.8 MB of archives. After unpacking 105 MB will be used.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> gfortran-4.8 : Depends: gcc-4.8-base (= 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) but
> 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1 is installed.
> Depends: gcc-4.8 (= 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) but
> 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1 is installed.
> libgfortran3 : Depends: gcc-4.8-base (= 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) but
> 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1 is installed.
> libgfortran-4.8-dev : Depends: gcc-4.8-base (= 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
> but 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1 is installed.
> Depends: libgcc-4.8-dev (= 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
> but 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1 is installed.
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>
> Keep the following packages at their current version:
> 1) gfortran [Not Installed]
> 2) gfortran-4.8 [Not Installed]
> 3) libgfortran-4.8-dev [Not Installed]
> 4) libgfortran3 [Not Installed]
> 5) liblapack-dev [Not Installed]
> 6) liblapack3 [Not Installed]
> 7) r-base [Not Installed]
> 8) r-base-core [Not Installed]
> 9) r-base-dev [Not Installed]
> 10) r-base-html [Not Installed]
> 11) r-cran-boot [Not Installed]
> 12) r-cran-class [Not Installed]
> 13) r-cran-cluster [Not Installed]
> 14) r-cran-codetools [Not Installed]
> 15) r-cran-foreign [Not Installed]
> 16) r-cran-kernsmooth [Not Installed]
> 17) r-cran-lattice [Not Installed]
> 18) r-cran-mass [Not Installed]
> 19) r-cran-matrix [Not Installed]
> 20) r-cran-mgcv [Not Installed]
> 21) r-cran-nlme [Not Installed]
> 22) r-cran-nnet [Not Installed]
> 23) r-cran-rpart [Not Installed]
> 24) r-cran-spatial [Not Installed]
> 25) r-cran-survival [Not Installed]
> 26) r-recommended [Not Installed]
>
>
>
> Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Y
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
>
> thanks
>
>
> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> _______________________________________________
> R-SIG-Debian mailing list
> R-SIG-Debian at r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
>
[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
More information about the R-SIG-Debian
mailing list