On 19 November 2010 at 20:34, Michael Rutter wrote: | | | 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
You need to remove the entry for the cdrom from /etc/apt/sources.list -- you can do that by hand but maybe one of the GUI tools to package management interfaces do it too. Besides this, Michael's points below are spot-on too. Dirk | > 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 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
