Problem installing from cvs in Ubuntu 8.04. was Re: [Gretl-users] Problem updating from cvs in Fedora 8

Alin I tried to upgrade to fc9 using a disk which I had checked as part of the install system but regrettably the install failed with a segmentation fault close to the end of the upgrade. Some programs would not run afterwards and the system was generally unstable. I checked a live version of Ubuntu 8.04 and it appeared to run well even detecting my wireless card automatically and I installed it deleting my fc9 in the process. I have installed R, Octave, Maxima, TexLive and several other programs of interest. The latest version of Gretl on the Ubuntu repositories is 1.7.1 which is a bit old. I tried to install from cvs but have some problems installing lapack3-dev. If my interpretation of the output below is correct lapack3-dev requires either refblas3-dev or atlas3-base-dev. It appears that there is some kind of conflict between these two packages and r-base-dev. Is there a way around this. lWill the problem go away later this month when Ubuntu 8.10 is released. It appears that the upgrade is easier in Ubuntu than in Fedora. Best regards John frainj@dell390:~$ sudo apt-get install -s lapack3-dev 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. 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: lapack3-dev: Depends: refblas3-dev but it is not going to be installed or atlas3-base-dev but it is not going to be installed or libblas-3.so E: Broken packages frainj@dell390:~$ sudo apt-get install -s refblas3-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: g77 g77-3.4 libg2c0 libg2c0-dev refblas3 Suggested packages: g77-doc g77-3.4-doc The following packages will be REMOVED: libblas-dev liblapack-dev r-base-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: g77 g77-3.4 libg2c0 libg2c0-dev refblas3 refblas3-dev 0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 3 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Remv r-base-dev [2.7.2-2hardy1] Remv liblapack-dev [3.1.1-0.3ubuntu2] Remv libblas-dev [1.2-1.3ubuntu4] Inst libg2c0 (1:3.4.6-6ubuntu5 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy-updates) Inst libg2c0-dev (1:3.4.6-6ubuntu5 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy-updates) Inst g77-3.4 (3.4.6-6ubuntu5 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy-updates) Inst g77 (4:3.4.6-31ubuntu6 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy-updates) Inst refblas3 (1.2-8ubuntu2 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy) Inst refblas3-dev (1.2-8ubuntu2 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy) Conf libg2c0 (1:3.4.6-6ubuntu5 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy-updates) Conf libg2c0-dev (1:3.4.6-6ubuntu5 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy-updates) Conf g77-3.4 (3.4.6-6ubuntu5 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy-updates) Conf g77 (4:3.4.6-31ubuntu6 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy-updates) Conf refblas3 (1.2-8ubuntu2 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy) Conf refblas3-dev (1.2-8ubuntu2 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy) frainj@dell390:~$ 2008/9/1 Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt;: -- John C Frain Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:frainj@tcd.ie mailto:frainj@gmail.com