[R-sig-Debian] Install R 4 on Chromebook (unmet dependencies)

[Johannes Ranke]

Hi,

I assume you are running Debian stable on this chromebook (True?). What's the 
architecture you are using (like amd64 or arm64, you can see it in the output 
of uname -a). I have stopped providing binaries for arm architectures, as I am 
not using them. You could build R 4.0.0 packages from source, though...

If you were on a supported architecture, you would need to use -t buster-
cran40 for apt install, as mentioned in the Debian page on CRAN.

Kind regards,

Johannes

Am Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2020, 08:05:23 CEST schrieb Luigi Marongiu:
> Hello,
> I have tried to upgrade R to 4.0. I have added `deb
> http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian buster-cran40/` to
> `/etc/apt/sources.list` (but I removed cran35). Btu when I run
> `apt-get update; apt-get install r-base r-base-dev` I get an error. I
> think it depends on r-base-core, since it depends on these obsolete
> libraries:
> ```
> $ sudo apt-get install r-base-core
> 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-core : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27) but 2.24-11+deb9u4 is to be
> installed Depends: libcurl4 (>= 7.28.0) but it is not installable Depends:
> libgfortran5 (>= 8) but it is not installable Depends: libicu63 (>=
> 63.1-1~) but it is not installable Depends: libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.32) but it
> is not going to be installed
>                Recommends: r-recommended but it is not going to be installed
> Recommends: r-base-dev but it is not going to be installed Recommends:
> r-doc-html but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct
> problems, you have held broken packages.
> ```
> How can I upgrade these libraries on Chromebook?
> Thank you
> 
> _______________________________________________
> R-SIG-Debian mailing list
> R-SIG-Debian using r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian