[R-sig-Debian] Installing R in Ubuntu

[Christofer Bogaso]

Thanks George! It helps. Regards,

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 6:38 PM George N. White III <gnwiii using gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 08:31, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer using gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks for this.
>>
>> I have downloaded the r-base-core_3.6.1-3disco_amd64.deb file and
>> placed in /var/cache/apt/archives
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>> Next I ran below code in Ubuntu
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>> sudo apt-get install -f /var/cache/apt/archives/r-base-core.deb
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>> But this is failing with below message -
>> E: Unsupported file /var/cache/apt/archives/r-base-core.deb given on commandline
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>> Could you please help resolve this?
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> Use "dpkg".   For details of Debian/Ubuntu package management, see:
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html
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> Ubuntu provides the Debian Reference Manual as a package.
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>> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 4:45 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:
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>> > On 17 October 2019 at 16:34, Christofer Bogaso wrote:
>> > | I have an Ubuntu server hosted in the cloud, but for security purpose,
>> > | direct internet connection is blocked.
>> > |
>> > | So my question is under this scenario how can I install R in that machine?
>> >
>> > It is an old, and solved problem. It has come up on StackOverflow a few times
>> > before as well.  Here is a (nearly) ten-year old answer of mine:
>> >
>> > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4419268/how-do-i-download-a-package-from-apt-get-without-installing-it/4419282#4419282
>> >
>> > You want one of those solutions -- and I am sure there are newer ones, so
>> > maybe try searching on askubuntu.com as well -- as it will pull needed
>> > dependencies in for you as well.
>> >
>> > | I was wondering if I could have some .deb file available then I could
>> > | scp that .deb file from my local computer (this has internet) to that
>> > | Ubuntu server.
>> > |
>> > | But when I reached to
>> > | https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/disco-cran35/, I failed
>> > | to identify any deb file.
>> > |
>> > | Could you shed some light on this?
>> >
>> > a) Don't use a per-institution server. The edge-of-cloud CDN ones are
>> > generally as good or faster _irrespective of your location_ and hence better
>> > for others.  So https://cloud.r-project.org is better
>> >
>> > b) Copying and pasting from http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/disco-cran35/
>> >
>> >       [....]
>> >       r-base-core_3.6.1-3disco_amd64.deb              2019-07-26 13:54   24M
>> >       r-base-core_3.6.1-3disco_i386.deb               2019-07-26 14:09   24M
>> >       [....]
>> >
>> > Dirk
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