[R-sig-Debian] Segfault on ubuntu 18.04

[Göran Broström]

On 2018-07-06 22:44, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> On 6 July 2018 at 21:52, Göran Broström wrote:
> | I did this and removed anything related to R and reinstalled. Then, in R,
> |
> |  > install.packages("curl")
> |
> | and got
> |
> | Error: package or namespace load failed for 'curl' in dyn.load(file,
> | DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
> |   unable to load shared object
> | '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/curl/libs/curl.so':
> |    /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/curl/libs/curl.so: undefined symbol:
> | curl_easy_escape
> | Error: loading failed
> |
> | I have installed curl, libcurl4, libcurl4-openssl-dev.
> 
> We should also have r-cran-curl prebuilt for you.

$ sudo apt install r-cran-curl
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-cran-curl : Depends: r-api-3.4
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

G,

> 
> Dirk
>