R help - Jan 2009 - Dependencies for binaries install of R 2.8.2 under Ubuntu 64 8.1 (Intrepid)

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can't seem to perform an install from CRAN (stat.sfu.ca, specifically)
for Ubuntu 64 8.1 (Intrepid) and 2.8.2  of R. Here is the log:
 Looks like some dependencies cannot be satisfied.
 Suggestions?  Thanks in advance.
 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.
 Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely
that
 the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
 that package should be filed.
 The following information may help resolve the situation:
 The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   r-base: Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.8.1-1intrepid0) but it is not
going to be installed
           Depends: r-recommended (= 2.8.1-1intrepid0) but it is not
going to be installed
 E: Broken packages
 rob@U8:~$ 
 rob@U8:~$ 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.
 Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely
that
 the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
 that package should be filed.
 The following information may help resolve the situation:
 The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   r-base-core: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8~20080505) but 2.7-10ubuntu4 is
to be installed
                Depends: libgfortran3 (>= 4.3) but it is not
installable
                Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.21.6) but
1.20.5-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
 E: Broken packages
 rob@U8:~$ 
 rob@U8:~$ 
 
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On 14 January 2009 at 12:04, Rob James wrote:
|   BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }I
| can't seem to perform an install from CRAN (stat.sfu.ca, specifically)
| for Ubuntu 64 8.1 (Intrepid) and 2.8.2  of R. Here is the log:

[ There is no R 2.8.2 (yet, and maybe ever) but only 2.8.1.  AFAIK there is
  also no "Ubuntu 64 8.1". There the 8.10 release which you seem to be
running
  on the amd64 architecture. ]

|  Looks like some dependencies cannot be satisfied.
|  Suggestions?  Thanks in advance.
|  The following information may help resolve the situation:
|  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
|    r-base-core: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8~20080505) but 2.7-10ubuntu4 is
| to be installed
|                 Depends: libgfortran3 (>= 4.3) but it is not
| installable
|                 Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.21.6) but
| 1.20.5-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
|  E: Broken packages

Could it be that you confused your Ubuntu releases? At work, I happen to be
running Ubuntu 8.10 on amd64 and I do have all those (or newer) versions of
libc6, libgfortran4 and libpange1.0.0 --- along with CRAN binaries of R
2.8.1.

Either you did not really upgrade from earlier Ubuntu versions, or you are
running an earlier versions.  Check what /etc/apt/sources.list has and then
either upgrade your CRAN Ubuntu entry to match your Ubuntu release. or just
pick R 2.8.1 prebuilt for an older Ubuntu release thanks to Vincent and
Michael.

Also, note that there is the r-sig-debian list for questions like this. You
may want to subscribe there and bring your follow-up questions up there,
which may get you prompter replies than at r-help where we may miss Debian /
Ubuntu posts.

Hth, Dirk

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