[R-sig-Debian] installation problem for R 4.0 on Debian buster

[Mark van der Loo]

Hi all,

I just spun up a fresh Debian Buster instance, then I added:

deb http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian buster-cran40/

to /etc/apt/sources.list. I also ran the apt-key command as described here:
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/#secure-apt

So far so good, now when I do the following, I get no joy:

$ sudo apt-get install r-base

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-base : Depends: r-recommended (= 4.0.0-1~bustercran.0) but it is not
going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


However, when I use the buster-cran-35 deb line, all works fine. So there
seems to be something going on with buster-cran-40. Is this correct, or am
I missing something?

Thanks,
Mark

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