[R-sig-Debian] Installing R in Ubuntu

George N. White III
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:08:45 -0000

On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 08:31, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer at
gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for this.
>
> I have downloaded the r-base-core_3.6.1-3disco_amd64.deb file and
> placed in /var/cache/apt/archives
>
> Next I ran below code in Ubuntu
>
> sudo apt-get install -f /var/cache/apt/archives/r-base-core.deb
>
> But this is failing with below message -
> E: Unsupported file /var/cache/apt/archives/r-base-core.deb given on
> commandline
>
> Could you please help resolve this?
>

Use "dpkg".   For details of Debian/Ubuntu package management, see:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html

Ubuntu provides the Debian Reference Manual as a package.


> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 4:45 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 17 October 2019 at 16:34, Christofer Bogaso wrote:
> > | I have an Ubuntu server hosted in the cloud, but for security
purpose,
> > | direct internet connection is blocked.
> > |
> > | So my question is under this scenario how can I install R in that
> machine?
> >
> > It is an old, and solved problem. It has come up on StackOverflow a
few
> times
> > before as well.  Here is a (nearly) ten-year old answer of mine:
> >
> >
>
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4419268/how-do-i-download-a-package-from-apt-get-without-installing-it/4419282#4419282
> >
> > You want one of those solutions -- and I am sure there are newer ones,
so
> > maybe try searching on askubuntu.com as well -- as it will pull needed
> > dependencies in for you as well.
> >
> > | I was wondering if I could have some .deb file available then I
could
> > | scp that .deb file from my local computer (this has internet) to
that
> > | Ubuntu server.
> > |
> > | But when I reached to
> > | https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/disco-cran35/, I
failed
> > | to identify any deb file.
> > |
> > | Could you shed some light on this?
> >
> > a) Don't use a per-institution server. The edge-of-cloud CDN ones
are
> > generally as good or faster _irrespective of your location_ and hence
> better
> > for others.  So https://cloud.r-project.org is better
> >
> > b) Copying and pasting from
> http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/disco-cran35/
> >
> >       [....]
> >       r-base-core_3.6.1-3disco_amd64.deb              2019-07-26 13:54
>  24M
> >       r-base-core_3.6.1-3disco_i386.deb               2019-07-26 14:09
>  24M
> >       [....]
> >
> > Dirk
> >
> > --
> > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
>
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