r-bioc-biocgenerics software package provides generic functions for Bioconductor, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install r-bioc-biocgenerics
r-bioc-biocgenerics is installed in your system.
Make ensure the r-bioc-biocgenerics package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep r-bioc-biocgenerics *
You will get with r-bioc-biocgenerics package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | GNU R |
| Package | r-bioc-biocgenerics |
| Version | 0.8.0-1 |
| Description | generic functions for Bioconductor |
| Sub Section | Gnu-r |