Is it impossible to install R 4.0 on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS because r-base-core requires a libc6 version >= 2.29?

Question

I am trying to install R 4.0 on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS but I keep getting errors of

> sudo apt install r-base-core
Reading package lists... Done
Building depende         


        

Answer 1

The problem may to be with your /etc/apt/sources.list. Please check whether you have disabled all other repositories for R in there, e.g. it should not contain lines like deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/