On 11 September 2012 at 10:16, Keith Chewning wrote: | | | Hello Dirk: | | Thank you for your reply. I thought that I need to install tk8.5 from | an external source because a search with apt-cache search did | not return that library. Paul L. helped me resolve this issue. In | synaptic the "Software Sources" dialog box did not have Canonical | Supported and From Source checked. I check this and did an | apt-get update. I could then see the tk8.5 library, which then allowed | me to install R :-) This is a new install of 12.04, I am not sure why | that checkbox was unselected by default.
Thanks for reporting back. I was afraid something worse was hosed on your system -- good to know you're up and running now. Dirk | Thanks, | kc | | --- On Tue, 9/11/12, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: | | | From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> | Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] ubuntu 12.04 install issues | To: "Keith Chewning" <[email protected]> | Cc: [email protected] | Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 6:18 AM | | | On 10 September 2012 at 20:56, Keith Chewning wrote: | | Hello: | | | | I have a new install of Ubuntu 12.04. I have tried to install R via | source, | | apt-get, and the deb packages from a cran mirror. Each of these had | issues. | | I followed the secure apt key install. The apt-get and deb installs each | | have the same error. So, let's ignore the source install for now. This is | the error: | | | | >> sudo dpkg -i r-base-core_2.15.1-1precise2_i386.deb | | (Reading database ... 244318 files and directories currently installed.) | | Preparing to replace r-base-core 2.15.1-1precise2 (using | r-base-core_2.15.1-1precise2_i386.deb) ... | | Unpacking replacement r-base-core ... | | dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of r-base-core: | | r-base-core depends on tk8.5 (>= 8.5.0); however: | | Package tk8.5 is not installed. | | dpkg: error processing r-base-core (--install): | | dependency problems - leaving unconfigured | | ... | | r-base-core | | Package "tk8.5" is missing. | | | Obviously the hurdle here is tk8.5. I installed | | ActiveTcl8.5.12.0.296033-linux-ix86-threaded.tar.gz from | | http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads, which www.tcl.tk | | suggested for obtaining binaries. This however did not make R | | any happier. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. | | Why did you think that would matter? Why did you think you needed something | from outside Ubuntu itself> | | Just use the regular tk8.5 package, which apt-get should have suggested | and pulled in anyway: | | edd@max:~$ apt-cache policy tk8.5 | tk8.5: | Installed: 8.5.11-1 | Candidate: 8.5.11-1 | Version table: | *** 8.5.11-1 0 | 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 | Packages | 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status | edd@max:~$ dpkg -s tk8.5 | Package: tk8.5 | Status: install ok installed | Priority: optional | Section: libs | Installed-Size: 2963 | Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> | Architecture: amd64 | Version: 8.5.11-1 | Provides: wish | Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0), libx11-6, libxft2 (>> | 2.1.1), libxss1, tcl8.5 (>= 8.5.0) | Recommends: xterm | x-terminal-emulator | Conflicts: libtk-img (<< 1.2.5), tk40 (<= 4.0p3-2) | Description: Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.5 - run-time files | Tk is a cross-platform graphical toolkit which provides the Motif | look-and-feel and is implemented using the Tcl scripting language. | This package contains everything you need to run Tk (wish) scripts | and Tk-enabled apps. | Original-Maintainer: Tcl/Tk Debian Packagers < | [email protected]> | Homepage: http://www.tcl.tk/ | edd@max:~$ | | Dirk | | -- | Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
