Hi there.
I think the issue I will report below might be related to this original post. At any rate, I will possibly create a new post here in the forum as well, if I am not succesful.
I use Linux Debian sid, its most uptodate branch. Rarely do I have problems with RStudio installation. However, after a last full-upgrade, carried out yesterday, Mar 26, 2020, my former fully operational RStudio (preview version) stopped working. In fact, it was somehow removed...
To fix this, I downloaded the latest preview version, 1.3.929-amd64.deb, for Ubuntu 18/Debian 10 (64-bit) and tried to install it, via dpkg:
# dpkg -i rstudio-1.3.929-amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package rstudio.
(Reading database ... 721700 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack rstudio-1.3.929-amd64.deb ...
Unpacking rstudio (1.3.929) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of rstudio:
rstudio depends on libclang-dev; however:
Package libclang-dev is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package rstudio (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.15-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
rstudio
If I try to install libclang-dev, I get the following:
# apt install libclang-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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libclang-dev : Depends: libclang-9-dev (>= 9~) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
If I try installing libclang-9-dev, then I get:
# apt install libclang-9-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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libclang-9-dev : Depends: libstdc++-8-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgcc-8-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libobjc-8-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
If I try to install libstdc++-8-dev, for instance, I get:
# apt install libstdc++-8-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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libstdc++-8-dev : Depends: libgcc-8-dev (= 8.4.0-2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
If I try then to install libgcc-8-dev, I get:
# apt install libgcc-8-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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgcc-8-dev : Depends: libgcc-s1 (>= 1:8.4.0-2) but 10-20200324-1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
In fact, when I try to install libgcc-s1, I get:
apt install libgcc-s1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libgcc-s1 is already the newest version (10-20200324-1).
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I have looked up several messages and posts here and elsewhere, with no success. Any directions to fix this up?
Thanks in advance.