Installation failed on Ubuntu 16.04 about microsoft-r-open HOT 4 CLOSED

We have never been able to reproduce this issue on Ubuntu 16.04, but can you try the following:

If you don't mind, could you remove each of the following packages using the command:

for each of the packages below run:

sudo dpkg --remove <package_name>

microsoft-r-open-mkl-3.3
microsoft-r-open-foreachiterators-3.3
microsoft-r-open-mro-3.3
If for some reason removing any package fails, try adding --force-remove-reinstreq after --remove.

After you do this, run:

sudo rm -rf /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.3 (this will destroy the folder)

Finally, can you please use dpkg to install each of the packages (mro, foreachiterators, mkl)? I'd like to know if it works or not. If it doesn't work, I'd be curious to know if you have any custom bash shell options set (like noglob). When I did my testing, I used a clean install of Ubuntu Server 16.04, so I am trying to figure out how I can get a repro.

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The problem was that MKL does not get removed on MRO reinstallation and then MRO installation script gets confused. The following worked for me:

sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq microsoft-r-open-mkl-3.3
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq microsoft-r-open-foreachiterators-3.3
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq microsoft-r-open-mro-3.3
sudo rm -rf /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.3
sudo apt-get -f autoremove
sudo ./install.sh

R and R Studio now work just fine!

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after completely removing installed package via dpkg --remove and rm -rf xxx, I still see the follow error message. I previously had MRO-3.2.5 successfully installed, not sure why it failed this time.

xxx@yyy ~/Downloads/microsoft-r-open/deb $ sudo dpkg -i microsoft-r-open-mkl-3.3.deb 
(Reading database ... 225397 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack microsoft-r-open-mkl-3.3.deb ...
Unpacking microsoft-r-open-mkl-3.3 (3.3.1) over (3.3.1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of microsoft-r-open-mkl-3.3:
 microsoft-r-open-mkl-3.3 depends on microsoft-r-open-mro-3.3; however:
  Package microsoft-r-open-mro-3.3 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package microsoft-r-open-mkl-3.3 (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 microsoft-r-open-mkl-3.3

The following actually works:

sudo apt-get -f autoremove
sudo rm -rf /usr/lib64/microsoft-r
sudo ./install.sh

Now my R is functioning well.

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the only way that works for the awkward upgrading from previous versions. at least there's one way that works.

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