Barry, my reporting error, my ubuntu is 10.04, which is Hardy I believe. It was a straight build from the source. No funny stuff done on it.
H -----Original Message----- From: b.rowling...@googlemail.com [mailto:b.rowling...@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 10:57 AM To: Horace Tso Cc: r-help Subject: Re: [R] problem installing R on ubuntu On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Horace Tso <horace....@pgn.com> wrote: > Following the official instructions to install R on ubuntu 10.04, I issued > this command on the prompt, > > sudo apt-get install r-base > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > r-base: Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.12.1-1hardy0) but 2.10.1-2 is to be > installed > Depends: r-recommended (= 2.12.1-1hardy0) but 2.10.1-2 is to be > installed > E: Broken packages > > Note I already have 2.10.1 installed. Ubuntu 10.4 is Lucid Lynx, so I'm slightly worried why hardy is mentioned in the error. Is this a poorly upgraded machine from Hardy? Barry ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
