I have made a similar question but it was closed here: Difficulties on trying to (re)install R
As I work in WSL I believe my situation is a bit specific.
After uninstalling R and going through some tutorials as the one suggested to me (in the closed question above) I am still not able to reinstall R in WSL.
Right now I'm stuck in this part of a tutorial described here How do I restore the default repositories? because in WSL "Softwares Sources" window will not popup like in regular ubuntu OS. Probably must have some way for one to do that update in the command line, but I haven't found it so far.
In case I want to update source, from this step on:
~$ sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list ~/
~$ sudo touch /etc/apt/sources.list
~$ lsb_release -c -s
bionic
~$ ###### Ubuntu Main Repos
~$ deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic main restricted universe multiverse
Command 'deb' not found, did you mean:
command 'deb3' from deb quilt
command 'debc' from deb devscripts
command 'edb' from deb edb-debugger
command 'dub' from deb dub
command 'dex' from deb dex
command 'xdeb' from deb xdeb
command 'dab' from deb bsdgames
command 'debi' from deb devscripts
command 'dep' from deb go-dep
command 'derb' from deb icu-devtools
Try: sudo apt install <deb name>
Some of my other logs:
$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/c2d4u.team/c2d4u4.0+/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/ InRelease
Hit:3 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/ InRelease
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/sublime-text-2/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
[Should I try to fix these 4 Hits?]
I have noticed that there is still a directory called R which I do not know if is causing any conflict with me trying to reinstall R (so, maybe should I delete it manually?).
/etc/R$ ls
Makeconf Renviron.site Rprofile.site ldpaths repositories
Finally, at /etc/apt/sources.list.d there are several files that I don't know either if I should manually delete them.
/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ ls
c2d4u_team-ubuntu-c2d4u4_0_-bionic.list c2d4u_team-ubuntu-c2d4u4_0_-bionic.list.save webupd8team-ubuntu-sublime-text-2-bionic.list webupd8team-ubuntu-sublime-text-2-bionic.list.save
Thanks for the answers, in advance!
FINAL EDIT
HUGE thanks to https://askubuntu.com/users/1165986/notthedr01ds for giving me clues. Helped me figure that deb lines are not commands.
I'll describe briefly what solved my issue:
#1 created a new file of sources.list in Notepad adding this text https://gist.github.com/h0bbel/4b28ede18d65c3527b11b12fa36aa8d1 on it. Because mine is Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Bionic Beaver.
I've checked to not save the file as "sources.list.txt".
#2 moved the new sources.list to '/etc/apt/' by:
sudo mv /path/to/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list
#3 Done. As I was looking for an answer to allow me to reinstall R it solved my problem. BTW, I follow this installation of R from cran:
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ and also troubleshooting from here:
https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/issues/863
