Thank you to Dirk and Michael for your help (and to Dirk for reminding me that I hadn't responded to the list...sorry).
As it turns out, commenting out the /cdrom entry in sources.list did the trick. As for Michael's questions, (a) yes, I did do sudo get-apt update before trying to install R and (b) I did have the repository set up properly in sources.list. I have R running on my Ubuntu system and am in the process of installing packages. (It's a good diagnostic for discovering what I don't have installed :) Thanks again, Dennis On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
