[R-sig-Debian] Problem with Ubuntu bionic R 3.5

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 18 June 2018 at 18:38, Ulrich Leuchtmann wrote:
| Hi Michael.
| 
| I fear I'm becoming a pain in your back. Sorry.
| 
| The problem with the "Components" and "Suite" name in the "InRelease" 
| file for bionic-cran35 has been solved. *Many thanks for that.* However, 
| "sudo apt-get install r-base" creates an error message (again here the 
| German version):
| 
| ulrich using linuxdesktop:~$ sudo apt-get install r-base
| Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
| Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut.
| Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig
| Einige Pakete konnten nicht installiert werden. Das kann bedeuten, dass
| Sie eine unmögliche Situation angefordert haben oder, wenn Sie die
| Unstable-Distribution verwenden, dass einige erforderliche Pakete noch
| nicht erstellt wurden oder Incoming noch nicht verlassen haben.
| Die folgenden Informationen helfen Ihnen vielleicht, die Situation zu lösen:
| 
| Die folgenden Pakete haben unerfüllte Abhängigkeiten:
|   r-base : Hängt ab von: r-recommended (= 3.5.0-1bionic) soll aber nicht 
| installiert werden
| E: Probleme können nicht korrigiert werden, Sie haben zurückgehaltene 
| defekte Pakete.
| 
| That's something new. I know, I could probably solve this problem by
| 
|      sudo apt-get install r-base r-recommended

That is normal.

r-base does not depend on r-recommended, but suggests it.

r-recommended however does depend on a given version of R, and apt just tells
you that _given that you have r-recommended installed_ it can not upgrade
r-base. As such your request of 'install me just r-base, please' was not
satisfiable.

I keep forgetting which of the two deals smoothly with it, but between
'apt-get dist-upgrade' and 'apt-get update' one does; I think it is the
former which I use way more.

Hth, Dirk
| 
| But somehow I am puzzled that r-base now _depends_ on r-recommended. Is 
| that the way it is supposed to be now? In this case I think the 
| installation instruction on CRAN would need to get updated. Or is this 
| an error in the dependencies?
| 
| Best regards
| 
| Uli
| 
| 
| 
| 
| Am 17.06.2018 um 03:33 schrieb Michael Rutter:
| >
| >
| > On 06/16/2018 09:22 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >>
| >> Ulrich,
| >>
| >> On 16 June 2018 at 15:04, Ulrich Leuchtmann wrote:
| >> | Hi Dirk.
| >> |
| >> | I saw you installed a new release. Unfortunately the problem mentioned
| >> | below does persist.
| >>
| >> The Ubuntu side of things is mostly Michael's work.
| >>   | I know this is perhaps a minor issue, as users report they can 
| >> install
| >> | manually (see below). But under strict installation policies this can
| >> | create an issue. Synaptic is refusing to install. The German error
| >> | message is
| >> |
| >> | "Die Änderungen konnten nicht angewendet werden! Bitte zuerst die
| >> | Probleme mit defekten Paketen beheben."
| >> |
| >> | In English this should read something like "The change could not be
| >> | applied. Solve problems with broken packages first."
| >>
| >> I can still read my native tongue :)
| >>
| >> I think Michael works mostly with virtual machines where the 
| >> installation is
| >> not as minimal. We can (and should have) tested this some more with for
| >> example a Docker container.  Sorry about the inconvenience but I 
| >> think we can
| >> get this sorted out in a few days.
| >>
| >> Dirk
| >
| > My apologizes, I had an error in the apt configuration file.  I have 
| > corrected the error and tested it in docker.  Should resolve itself 
| > the next time the CRAN servers sync.
| >
| > Michael
| >
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