[R-sig-Debian] r-base installation fails on Ubuntu 14.04

[Barnet Wagman]

My system is amd64 (intel i5-5200U) so the processor can't be the problem.

thanks

On 03/23/2016 10:13 AM, Matthew Simpson wrote:
> 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
>