Hi Michael,
I'm using 64-bit Karmic. I've tried to install many packages (including, survival, impute, samr) and others, all with the same resulting message of terminating with non-zero exit status. Patrick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Rutter" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, May 9, 2010 10:51:02 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Non-zero exit status for survival package Patrick, Can you give an example of a package that you have tried to install?  Or you using 32 or 64-bit Karmic? Thanks, Michael On 05/09/2010 10:35 AM, Patrick Richardson wrote: > I'm running R 2.11 on Karmic. I'm having difficulty installing quite a > few packages with the returned error message of "installation of package > "[whatever the packages happens to be]" had non-zero exit status. I know > this message sometimes is caused by incorrect or missing java packages > and the like. I generally don't have issues with the installation of R > or R packages but I don't know where to start on this. I have looked to > ensure that I have fortran and C++ compilers installed. I want to (if I > can) avoid indiscriminately installing packages "until it starts > working". I'm not sure how to go about troubleshooting this. Could > anyone lend a hand, please? > > Thanks, > Patrick > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22) > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > > locale: >  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8    LC_NUMERIC=C > LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 >  [4] LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8   LC_MONETARY=C > LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 >  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8    LC_NAME=C > LC_ADDRESS=C > [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C       LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats   graphics  grDevices utils   datasets  methods > base > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] tools_2.11.0 > >> capabilities() >    jpeg    png   tiff   tcltk    X11   aqua > http/ftp  sockets > libxml   fifo  cledit >    TRUE   TRUE   TRUE   TRUE   TRUE   FALSE   > TRUE   TRUE > TRUE   TRUE   TRUE >   iconv    NLS  profmem   cairo >    TRUE   TRUE   TRUE   TRUE > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian -- Dr. Michael A. Rutter School of Science Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Station Road Erie, PA 16563 http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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