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Installing R in Ubuntu
2 messages · Nelson Villoria, Vincent Goulet
Le sam. 12 avr. ? 20:58, Villoria, Nelson B a ?crit :
Hello, I am new to Ubuntu (Linux in general) and I am trying to install R: so far, I am stuck. I have followed the instructions at the CRAN website with little luck. I read an exchange about the same issue posted before, but did not give me enough information to solve things by myself, hence, this email. Based on the former exchange I read, I am trying to include enough information to see if somebody can help me. In advance, many thanks! ****************************************************************** This what I added to my list: deb http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/ ****************************************************************** nvilloria at nvilloria-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update Get:1 http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu dapper/ Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu dapper/ Release Ign http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu dapper/ Packages Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B] Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [191B] Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [191B] Hit http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu dapper/ Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Sources Fetched 4B in 1s (2B/s) Reading package lists... Done ********************************************************************* nvilloria at nvilloria-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. ********************************************************************* nvilloria at nvilloria-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install r-base-core Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... 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. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: r-base-core: Depends: libgfortran0 (>= 4.0.2) but it is not installable E: Broken packages *************************************************************************** nvilloria at nvilloria-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy r-base r-base: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.6.2-1dapper0 Version table: 2.6.2-1dapper0 0 500 http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu dapper/ Packages nvilloria at nvilloria-desktop:~$ apt-get install r-base E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? nvilloria at nvilloria-desktop:~$
This last error message is easy: you forgot to sudo. As 'apt-cache show libgfortran0' will tell you, the version of libgfortran0 in Dapper is 4.0.3-1unbuntu5, so the dependency is satisfied. You claim to have followed the instructions, but didn't completely. Could you do like the Ubuntu README file says and try instead sudo apt-get install r-base (Instead of r-base-core). This works flawlessly here. Hope this helps --- Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor ?cole d'actuariat Universit? Laval, Qu?bec Vincent.Goulet at act.ulaval.ca http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca