How to Install and Uninstall r-base-core Package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Last updated: May 03,2024

1. Install "r-base-core" package

Please follow the steps below to install r-base-core on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install r-base-core

2. Uninstall "r-base-core" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall r-base-core on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):

$ sudo apt remove r-base-core $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the r-base-core package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Package: r-base-core
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.4.4-1ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/math
Source: r-base
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 36199
Provides: r-api-3.4, r-base-latex, r-cran-rcompgen, r-gnome
Depends: zip, unzip, libpaper-utils, xdg-utils, libblas3 | libblas.so.3, libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.27), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libcurl4 (>= 7.28.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgomp1 (>= 4.9), libicu60 (>= 60.1-1~), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), liblapack3 | liblapack.so.3, liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpcre3, libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1), libreadline7 (>= 6.0), libtcl8.6 (>= 8.6.0), libtiff5 (>= 4.0.3), libtk8.6 (>= 8.6.0), libx11-6, libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), ucf (>= 3.0), ca-certificates
Recommends: r-recommended, r-base-dev, r-doc-html
Suggests: ess, r-doc-info | r-doc-pdf, r-mathlib, r-base-html
Conflicts: r-base-latex, r-cran-rcompgen, r-gnome
Replaces: r-base (<= 1.4.1-1), r-base-latex (<= 2.9.2-4), r-cran-rcompgen (<= 0.1-17-1), r-gnome (<= 2.3.1), r-recommended (<< 1.9.0)
Filename: pool/universe/r/r-base/r-base-core_3.4.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 23154012
MD5sum: 4deaeabf45c262fbc02564f71d610971
SHA1: 357e3dd5c3e93dacab1af323548d056ae23a7025
SHA256: 5c5766d7b8728e4f55fbed885104ecf2ca18393a0d7f6e1eae8b42055b6b0252
Homepage: http://www.r-project.org/
Description: GNU R core of statistical computation and graphics system
Description-md5: 49185484f9628e672027078b83df963d