On a machine running Debian testing and now on another machine running Kubuntu hoary on which I tried to install the r-base-core_2.1.1-1 I consistently get errors from the installation of the recommended packages, such as r-cran-nlme. This is somewhat embarrassing as r-cran-nlme is my package :-) The error messages are Undefined subroutine &main::build_htmlpkglist called at /usr/lib/R/share/perl/build-help.pl line 73. That perl script does contain the line use R::Rdlists; and the file R/Rdists.pl does define build_htmlpkglist but somehow the definition is not being found. My perl is rather rusty and I would prefer not to debug this. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Does anyone know of a fix?