[R-sig-Debian] r-base-dev not installing in Ubuntu 16.04

[Robin Lovelace]

I have recently re-installed R on my Ubuntu system to get R 3.5 and found
this to have worked:

# you may need to remove incumbent repos e.g. with:
sudo apt-add-repository --remove ppa:marutter/rrutter

# add new repos
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter3.5 # for base R
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:marutter/c2d4u4.5  # for pkgs - this saved me
lots of time installing my set-up

At the end of it these are the only R-related repos I have:

apt policy | grep 3.5

# 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rrutter3.5/ubuntu xenial/main i386
Packages
#     release
v=16.04,o=LP-PPA-marutter-rrutter3.5,a=xenial,n=xenial,l=RRutter
v3.5,c=main,b=i386
# 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rrutter3.5/ubuntu xenial/main amd64
Packages
#     release
v=16.04,o=LP-PPA-marutter-rrutter3.5,a=xenial,n=xenial,l=RRutter
v3.5,c=main,b=amd64
# 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/c2d4u3.5/ubuntu xenial/main i386
Packages
#     release
v=16.04,o=LP-PPA-marutter-c2d4u3.5,a=xenial,n=xenial,l=cran2deb4ubuntu_3.5,c=main,b=i386
# 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/c2d4u3.5/ubuntu xenial/main amd64
Packages
#     release
v=16.04,o=LP-PPA-marutter-c2d4u3.5,a=xenial,n=xenial,l=cran2deb4ubuntu_3.5,c=main,b=amd64

Hope this helps. Please add-to this advice anyone who's more experienced
than me in this.

Thanks to all involved in getting this working and documented.

Robin

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Syed Murtuza baker <
syed.murtuzabaker using manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hello All,
> When I try to install r-base-dev on my Ubuntu 16.04 it gives me the
> following error
>
> r-base-dev : Depends: dh-r but it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
> I added the following two repos
>
> deb https://mirrors.ebi.ac.uk/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial-cran35
> deb http://uk-mirrors.evowise.com/ubuntu/ bionic-backports main
> restricted universe
>
> but still giving error. Could you please suggest me how to fix it.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best Regards,
> Syed
>
>
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> Dr. Syed Murtuza Baker
> Bioinformatics Core Facility
> Faculty of Biology, Medicine & Health
> The University of Manchester
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