Failing to install R 4.0.? on Raspian

From: "Johannes Ranke" <johannes.ranke at jrwb.de>
To: "Chris Evans" <chrishold at psyctc.org>, "r-sig-debian" <r-sig-debian at r-project.org>
Cc: "r-sig-debian" <r-sig-debian at r-project.org>, "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd at debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 24 March, 2021 15:12:23
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Failing to install R 4.0.? on Raspian

Am Mittwoch, 24. M?rz 2021, 16:00:42 CET schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:

On 24 March 2021 at 14:47, Chris Evans wrote:
| I have just invested very few pennies in a Raspian machine hosted by my
| ISP.
| 
| The machine tells me:
| 
| root at www:~# cat /etc/os-release
| PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
| NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
| VERSION_ID="10"
| VERSION="10 (buster)"
| VERSION_CODENAME=buster
| ID=raspbian
| 
| So I have added a line to /etc/apt/sources.list
| 
| root at www:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
| deb http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ buster main contrib non-free
| rpi deb http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ buster main
| deb http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian buster-cran40/

Hm, doesn't that third line make the heroic assumptions that there were a
non x86_64 repository?  So I think the error below may be a side effect.

Just because you are getting armhf packages from some repositories does not
imply you get them from all, methinks.  apt may happily look at the
binary:all packages which it could install, but then get sidelined by their
dependencies which it may not.

Yes, at one point I did compile armhf arm64 packages for the CRAN repo on a
raspberry that I still own, but the SD card broke and I do not have use case
anyways, so I stopped that (this is documented on the CRAN repo). 

So sorry, at the moment, arm packages for current R are not on CRAN.

For the moment, you can install R 3.5.2 from buster, or compile "locally",
with

apt-get build-dep r-base
apt-get source -b r-base

and install the packages that hopefully will appear.

Johannes

P.S.: Of course, if someone would once again upload R to buster-backports (and
after the release of bullseye to bullseye-backports), this would be no problem
any more. But that depends on one of the Debian devs to decide they want to
maintain such a backport.

Dirk

| root at www:~#
| 
| and added the key using
| 
| apt-key adv --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key
| 'E19F5F87128899B192B1A2C2AD5F960A256A04AF'
| 
| following
| https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/#debian-buster-stable
| 
| apt-get update
| 
| runs fine but apt install -t buster-cran40 r-base gets me this:
| 
| root at www:~# apt install -t buster-cran40 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.
| The following information may help to resolve the situation:
| 
| The following packages have unmet dependencies:
|  r-base : Depends: r-base-core (>= 4.0.4-1~bustercran.0) but it is not
|  going to be installed|
|           Depends: r-recommended (= 4.0.4-1~bustercran.0) but it is not
|           going to be installed Recommends: r-base-html but it is not
|           going to be installed
|           Recommends: r-doc-html but it is not going to be installed
| 
| E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
| 
| 
| aptitude why-not r-base says:
| 
| root at www:~# aptitude why-not r-base
| Not currently installed
| The candidate version 4.0.4-1~bustercran.0 has priority optional
| No dependencies require to remove r-base
| 
| and aptitude install r-base says
| 
| root at www:~# aptitude install r-base
| 
| The following NEW packages will be installed:
|   gfortran{a} gfortran-8{a} icu-devtools{a} libblas-dev{a} libblas3{a}
|   libbz2-dev{a} libdrm-amdgpu1{a} libdrm-common{a} libdrm-nouveau2{a}
|   libdrm-radeon1{a} libdrm2{a} libfile-basedir-perl{a}
|   libfile-desktopentry-perl{a} libfile-mimeinfo-perl{a} libfontenc1{a}
|   libgfortran-8-dev{a} libgfortran4{a} libgfortran5{a} libgl1{a}
|   libgl1-mesa-dri{a} libglapi-mesa{a} libglvnd0{a} libglx-mesa0{a}
|   libglx0{a} libicu-dev{a} libio-stringy-perl{a}
|   libipc-system-simple-perl{a} libjpeg-dev{a} libjpeg62-turbo-dev{a}
|   liblapack-dev{a} liblapack3{a} libllvm9{a} liblzma-dev{a}
|   libncurses-dev{a} libncurses5-dev{a} libnet-dbus-perl{a} libpcre16-3{a}
|   libpcre2-16-0{a} libpcre2-32-0{a} libpcre2-dev{a} libpcre2-posix0{a}
|   libpcre3-dev{a} libpcre32-3{a} libpcrecpp0v5{a} libpng-dev{a}
|   libpng-tools{a} libreadline-dev{a} libsensors-config{a} libsensors5{a}
|   libtcl8.6{a} libtie-ixhash-perl{a} libtk8.6{a} libx11-protocol-perl{a}
|   libxaw7{a} libxcb-dri2-0{a} libxcb-dri3-0{a} libxcb-glx0{a}
|   libxcb-present0{a} libxcb-shape0{a} libxcb-sync1{a}
|   libxml-parser-perl{a} libxml-twig-perl{a} libxml-xpathengine-perl{a}
|   libxmu6{a} libxshmfence1{a} libxss1{a} libxv1{a} libxxf86dga1{a}
|   libxxf86vm1{a} pkg-config{a} r-base{b} r-base-core{a} r-base-dev{ab}
|   r-base-html{a} r-cran-boot{ab} r-cran-class{a} r-cran-cluster{a}
|   r-cran-codetools{ab} r-cran-foreign{a} r-cran-kernsmooth{a}
|   r-cran-lattice{a} r-cran-mass{a} r-cran-matrix{a} r-cran-mgcv{a}
|   r-cran-nlme{a} r-cran-nnet{a} r-cran-rpart{a} r-cran-spatial{a}
|   r-cran-survival{a} r-doc-html{a} r-recommended{ab} unzip{a}
|   x11-utils{a} x11-xserver-utils{a} xdg-utils{a} zip{a} zlib1g-dev{a}
| 
| 0 packages upgraded, 97 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
| Need to get 1,812 kB/89.4 MB of archives. After unpacking 716 MB will be
| used.|
| The following packages have unmet dependencies:
|  r-cran-boot : Depends: r-base-core (>= 4.0.4-1~bustercran.0) but 3.5.2-1
|  is to be installed|
|                Depends: r-api-4.0 which is a virtual package and is not
|                provided by any available package|
|  r-cran-codetools : Depends: r-base-core (>= 4.0.4-1~bustercran.0) but
|  3.5.2-1 is to be installed|
|                     Depends: r-api-4.0 which is a virtual package and is
|                     not provided by any available package|
|  r-base : Depends: r-base-core (>= 4.0.4-1~bustercran.0) but 3.5.2-1 is to
|  be installed r-recommended : Depends: r-base-core (>=
|  4.0.4-1~bustercran.0) but 3.5.2-1 is to be installed r-base-dev :
|  Depends: r-base-core (>= 4.0.4-1~bustercran.0) but 3.5.2-1 is to be
|  installed|
| The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
|      Keep the following packages at their current version:
| 1)     r-base [Not Installed]
| 2)     r-base-dev [Not Installed]
| 3)     r-cran-boot [Not Installed]
| 4)     r-cran-codetools [Not Installed]
| 5)     r-recommended [Not Installed]
| 
|      Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
| 6)     r-base-core recommends r-recommended
| 7)     r-base-core recommends r-base-dev
| 
| I assume that I have some part of R 3.5.? stuck in the apt system from
| previously installing R from the default raspian repositories (stupid of
| me).  There is nothing in /usr/lib/R (no directory) nor does /usr/bin/R
| exist and I have (in desperation: not something I remember doing often
| with Debian machines) even rebooted the machine but no change.
| 
| I could wipe the machine and start over and not install R until after
| adding the buster line deb http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian
| buster-cran40/
| to /etc/apt/sources.list and doing apt-get update
| 
| However, I thought I'd check things out here first. Thanks in advance for
| any suggestions.
| 
| Chris
| 
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