After I apparently achieved access to the Debian CRAN repositories last night (appropriate line for /etc/apt/sources.list plus getting the GPG key to work), today it seems to have gone belly-up again (but in a somewhat different way). First, without changing settings, I got rubbish (not preserved) from Synaptic Package Manager. So I decided to make a fresh start with /etc/apt/sources.list
I have adopted the suggested template deb http://<favorite-cran-mirror>/bin/linux/debian lenny-cran/ and have substituted for "<favorite-cran-mirror>" one of the two UK repositories, so I have a choice of two lines: [1]: deb http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/debian lenny-cran/ [2]: deb http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/bin/linux/debian lenny-cran/ With either I get effectively the same response from Synaptic Package Manager, namely for the first: An error occured The following details are provided: W: Couldn't stat source package list http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk lenny-cran/ Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/www.stats.bris.ac.uk_R_bin_linux_debian_lenny-cran_Pac kages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) And for the second: An error occured The following details are provided: W: Couldn't stat source package list http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk lenny-cran/ Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk_bin_linux_debian_lenny-cran_Pac kages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) Is there some error (invisible to me) in the above lines [1] & [2]? Or what? Any help most gratefully received. I'm going round in circles on this, despite attempts to follow instructions to the letter. Thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[email protected]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 06-Jun-10 Time: 15:41:33 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
