On 7 January 2008 at 08:31, hadley wickham wrote: | > I am moving this to r-sig-debian, and I encourage you to subscribe there. [ If | > you do not subscribe, your mails will bounce. You are of course free to | > contact us off-list too. ] | | Thanks, and subscribed.
Welcome aboard! | > Not enough information here. It could simply be something else that is not R | > related. | > | > What happens when you do | > | > sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade | | ~: sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade | Password: | Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [191B] | Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B] | Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [191B] | Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release [50.9kB] | Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release | Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release [50.9kB] | Get:6 http://cran.r-project.org dapper/ Release.gpg [189B] | Get:7 http://cran.r-project.org dapper/ Release [1325B] | Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages [134kB] | Ign http://cran.r-project.org dapper/ Packages | Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages | Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages | Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Sources | Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Sources | Get:9 http://cran.r-project.org dapper/ Packages [6486B] | Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages [257kB] | Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages [7544B] | Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Sources [26.9kB] | Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Sources [979B] | Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Packages [84.7kB] | Get:15 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Sources [11.2kB] | Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages [5563B] | Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Sources [71.2kB] | Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Sources [979B] | Fetched 710kB in 2s (351kB/s) | Reading package lists... Done | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree... Done | Calculating upgrade... Done | The following packages will be upgraded: | locales | 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. | Need to get 3286kB of archives. | After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. | Do you want to continue [Y/n]? | Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main locales 2.3.18.8 [3286kB] | Fetched 3286kB in 5s (619kB/s) | (Reading database ... 29945 files and directories currently installed.) | Preparing to replace locales 2.3.18.7 (using .../locales_2.3.18.8_all.deb) ... | Unpacking replacement locales ... | Setting up locales (2.3.18.8) ... | Generating locales... | en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date | en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date | en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date | en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date | en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date | en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date | en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date | en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date | en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date | en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date | en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date | en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date | en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date | en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date | Generation complete. | Current default timezone: 'UTC'. | Local time is now: Mon Jan 7 14:29:11 UTC 2008. | Universal Time is now: Mon Jan 7 14:29:11 UTC 2008. | Run 'tzconfig' if you wish to change it. | | | which looks ok to me. Agreeed. Which is good. | > After that, try just the main R package to see what Depends: are claiming to | > | > sudo apt-get install r-base-core | | ~: install r-base-core | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree... Done | Package r-base-core is not available, but is referred to by another package. | This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or | is only available from another source | E: Package r-base-core has no installation candidate Sorry, may have been my thinko. r-base-core exists in my Debian breakdown of packages which I tend to just rebuild at work. So lets look at r-base. Do a 'apt-cache policy r-base'. What version do you see? Then try 'apt-get install r-base' and let's see what blockers exists there. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
