R SIG Debian - Apr 2012 - Dependency problem bug with r-cran-vr

Hi,

I was trying to connect GRASS with R, following the guidelines described here:

http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/R_statistics

The line in my /etc/apt/sources.list is like:

deb http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/cran/bin/linux/debian squeeze-cran/

But when I tried to install r-cran-vr, I got an unmet dependency
problem with r-cran-mass and r-cran-class.
But these two packages were already installed. Then why it happen?
--------------------------------------------------------------
jaisen at debian:~$ sudo apt-get install r-cran-vr
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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 r-cran-vr : Depends: r-cran-mass but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: r-cran-class but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
jaisen at debian:~$
--------------------------------------------------------------
Everything was nice and fine, except this one. How to fix this
problem? Please help me.

Regards,
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Jaisen,

r-cran-vr is not in the squeeze-cran repository - it is an outdated meta-
package that was fully replaced by its components (r-cran-mass and r-cran-
class are the debian packages of two of those components).

There should be no need for r-cran-vr any more. Try without it.

Kind regards,

Johannes

On Wednesday 11 April 2012 18:18:54 Jaisen Nedumpala
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to connect GRASS with R, following the guidelines described
> here:
> 
> http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/R_statistics
> 
> The line in my /etc/apt/sources.list is like:
> 
> deb http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/cran/bin/linux/debian squeeze-cran/
> 
> But when I tried to install r-cran-vr, I got an unmet dependency
> problem with r-cran-mass and r-cran-class.
> But these two packages were already installed. Then why it happen?
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> jaisen at debian:~$ sudo apt-get install r-cran-vr
> 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.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  r-cran-vr : Depends: r-cran-mass but it is not going to be installed
>              Depends: r-cran-class but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> jaisen at debian:~$
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Everything was nice and fine, except this one. How to fix this
> problem? Please help me.
> 
> Regards,