[R-sig-Debian] ERROR: Installing R - Ubuntu

[Ista Zahn]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 7:52 AM Nilson Moreira <docnilson using hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Good morning!
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> I'm trying to install R on my PC (16.04; LTS), but the following error ocours:
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> E: Falhou obter http://ppa.launchpad.net/skunk/pepper-flash/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/source/Sources  404  Not Found

That error doesn't have anything to do with R. Remove anything
installed from that old busted PPA, remove it from your sources.list,
and install R as instructed at
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/

Best,
Ista

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> I ran the following commands on the terminal:
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>   *   printf '\n#CRAN mirror\ndeb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial-cran35/\n' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
>   *   sudo apt-get update
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> The error ocours when I ran the sudo apt-get update.
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> I tried to see the reason for this error and noticed that the "xenial" folder is not in the address http://ppa.launchpad.net/skunk/pepper-flash/ubuntu/dists/xenial, which should be.
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> If anyone can help me, I would appreciate it.
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> Best regards,
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> Nilson Moreira
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