On 11/19/2010 07:56 PM, Dennis Murphy wrote: > 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 > Dennis,
1. Did you run "sudo apt-get update" before trying to install R. It may not know to look at the CRAN mirror yet. 2. What does the line you entered in "etc/apt/sources.list" look like? There may be an error there. Michael -- 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
