R install in Ubuntu maverick issues
Dear Michael, [snip]
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Michael Rutter <mar36 at psu.edu> wrote:
Valentin, While Jay's solution works, there should be no need to download a version of liblzma2 manually, as the correct version is contained within the default maverick repositories. Not sure why your system is not finding the package, but there are a couple of possibilities. The first is that your /etc/apt/sources.list file has an error, a line being commented out accidentally, for example. Another possibility is that a previous update (of any ubuntu package, not just R) failed to finish. Try 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' from the command line to make sure all updates and installs have properly finished. Hope this helps, Michael -- Dr. Michael A. Rutter School of Science Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Station Road Erie, PA 16563 http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter
I am 100% sure that your second possibility (update failed to finish) is what happened with my system. Thanks for the tip; I will make sure to do sudo dpkg --configure -a in the future. Jay