Issues in installing r-base-dev

Question

I am currently using Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit .I was trying to install R as specified on this link . I am successfully able to install r-base but getting errors when trying to install r-base-dev . Here is the error

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-dev : Depends: gfortran but it is not installable
              Depends: libblas-dev but it is not installable or
                       libatlas-base-dev but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: liblapack-dev but it is not installable or
                       libatlas-base-dev but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libreadline-dev but it is not installable
              Depends: libjpeg-dev but it is not installable
              Depends: libpcre3-dev but it is not installable
              Depends: libpng-dev but it is not installable
              Depends: libbz2-dev but it is not installable
              Depends: cdbs but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I have added the security key as stated in that link as well as the following line deb http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/ to /etc/apt/sources.list

I have also added the following ppa : sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter .

Any help would be appreciable.

PS: I was also doubtful with my lists in /var/lib/apt/lists so I deleted and created it again. Still having the same error .

Answer 1

I made sure that the restricted and universe repositories are enabled (which was disabled in case of mine ). For doing this , Hit Alt + F2 type software-properties-gtk and hit Enter.

Under Ubuntu Software tab enable all the repositories. After which run

sudo apt-get update

Again run

sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

And done successfully.

I got the above solution from this link