Hi: I installed Lucid Lynx amd64 on my system today, dual booted with Win 7. I've managed to install several packages through the Ubuntu Software Center with success and also installed texlive. Alas, installing my favorite software has not been so joyful. I went through the last few months of posts in this group to find something similar, but to no avail.
After a couple of false starts, I found this web page: http://blog.joelotz.net/?p=225 which seems to be doing the right thing and condenses some of the information I saw elsewhere rather nicely. I added the fhcrc site to the bottom of sources.list and copied all the commands into my bash window. Everything is fine up to sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev I got the following response from the terminal: den...@dennis-pc:~$ sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: build-essential dpatch dpkg-dev fakeroot g++ g++-4.4 gfortran gfortran-4.4 libblas-dev libbz2-dev libjpeg62-dev liblapack-dev libncurses5-dev libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 libpng12-dev libreadline-dev libreadline6-dev libstdc++6-4.4-dev patch patchutils r-base-core r-base-html r-cran-boot r-cran-class r-cran-cluster r-cran-codetools r-cran-foreign r-cran-kernsmooth r-cran-lattice r-cran-mass r-cran-matrix r-cran-mgcv r-cran-nlme r-cran-nnet r-cran-rpart r-cran-spatial r-cran-survival r-doc-html r-recommended xz-utils zlib1g-dev Suggested packages: curl debian-keyring debian-maintainers g++-multilib g++-4.4-multilib gcc-4.4-doc libstdc++6-4.4-dbg gfortran-multilib gfortran-doc gfortran-4.4-multilib gfortran-4.4-doc libgfortran3-dbg libstdc++6-4.4-doc diffutils-doc ess r-doc-info r-doc-pdf r-mathlib cdbs debhelper The following NEW packages will be installed: build-essential dpatch dpkg-dev fakeroot g++ g++-4.4 gfortran gfortran-4.4 libblas-dev libbz2-dev libjpeg62-dev liblapack-dev libncurses5-dev libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 libpng12-dev libreadline-dev libreadline6-dev libstdc++6-4.4-dev patch patchutils r-base r-base-core r-base-dev r-base-html r-cran-boot r-cran-class r-cran-cluster r-cran-codetools r-cran-foreign r-cran-kernsmooth r-cran-lattice r-cran-mass r-cran-matrix r-cran-mgcv r-cran-nlme r-cran-nnet r-cran-rpart r-cran-spatial r-cran-survival r-doc-html r-recommended xz-utils zlib1g-dev 0 upgraded, 44 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/47.1MB of archives. After this operation, 115MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Media change: please insert the disc labeled 'Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release amd64 (20100816.1)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter at which point the shell hangs after entering. I installed Ubuntu from a bootable CD-ROM this morning, using http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/dual-boot-windows-7-ubuntu.html as a guide, particularly for setting up the file system. Because I have a Dell, three primary partitions were already taken up. I took about 450Gb off my hard drive for Ubuntu and created the fourth partition for it as shown in the link above. I don't know if it has any bearing on the present problem, but in case it does... I've gotten the same response in the shell after each of four attempts, including two where I only asked to install r-base...at least the error is repeatable :) I'm hoping to find a way to get R installed in the 'usual' way. I'm an utter newbie in Linux so you may have to talk slow-ly to me. TIA for any help. Dennis [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
