R SIG Debian - Aug 2008 - Conflict between octave3.0-headers and r-base-dev

Hi,

I'm using Ubuntu Hardy i386, and the R 2.7.1 Ubuntu packages from CRAN.

The CRAN r-base-dev package depends on refblas3-dev or atlas3-base-dev, 
but octave3.0-headers depends on libblas-dev. The two blas packages seem 
to conflict, so r-base-dev and octave3.0-headers can't be installed 
together.

Is this a known issue?

Thanks,
Gad

$ sudo apt-get install octave3.0-headers
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
   libblas-dev libfftw3-dev libhdf5-serial-dev liblapack-dev
Suggested packages:
   libhdf5-doc
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   r-base-dev refblas3-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   libblas-dev libfftw3-dev libhdf5-serial-dev liblapack-dev 
octave3.0-headers


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Gad Abraham
Dept. CSSE and NICTA
The University of Melbourne
Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia
email: gabraham at csse.unimelb.edu.au
web: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~gabraham

Gad,

Thanks for the bug report and for using the appropriate list for it.

On 12 August 2008 at 14:31, Gad Abraham wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| I'm using Ubuntu Hardy i386, and the R 2.7.1 Ubuntu packages from CRAN.
| 
| The CRAN r-base-dev package depends on refblas3-dev or atlas3-base-dev, 
| but octave3.0-headers depends on libblas-dev. The two blas packages seem 
| to conflict, so r-base-dev and octave3.0-headers can't be installed 
| together.
| 
| Is this a known issue?

Maybe not, and looks like the Depends for r-base-dev need to be updated to
reflect the newer library names.  Unfortunately, 'everybody' is at
Dortmund
this week for UseR but I already mentioned this to Vincent.

On Debian we have 'libblas-dev | libatlas-base-dev, liblapack-dev |
libatlas-base-dev' but that, I think, wasn't possible for Vincent and
Ubuntu as the
newer atlas/blas packages had not yet migrated.  I think he can simply stop
changed 'down' to the older refblas choice.

Hope this helps, Dirk
 
| Thanks,
| Gad
| 
| $ sudo apt-get install octave3.0-headers
| Reading package lists... Done
| Building dependency tree
| Reading state information... Done
| The following extra packages will be installed:
|    libblas-dev libfftw3-dev libhdf5-serial-dev liblapack-dev
| Suggested packages:
|    libhdf5-doc
| The following packages will be REMOVED:
|    r-base-dev refblas3-dev
| The following NEW packages will be installed:
|    libblas-dev libfftw3-dev libhdf5-serial-dev liblapack-dev 
| octave3.0-headers
| 
| 
| -- 
| Gad Abraham
| Dept. CSSE and NICTA
| The University of Melbourne
| Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia
| email: gabraham at csse.unimelb.edu.au
| web: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~gabraham
| 
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