I have been successfully been using R on my EEE PC for some while
now. Although it uses Xandros I have been able to install various
pieces of software by pretending that it was Debian etch. Johannes
was kind enough to continue providing binaries on CRAN for a while
but I think I am the only person still living in the past as CRAN
etch is currently stuck at 2.11.0 and I cannot rely on him to be my
personal IT support for ever. So I decided to go it alone despite all
the warnings against such behaviour on this list.
My plan A was to go for a mixed installation by installing from
squeeze and risk that this would update some other software and
chance it breaking something.
So I pointed my entries in sources.list at the squeeze Debian
repository and at the CRAN squeeze repository and did
sudo apt-get update
sudo -s install r-base r-base-dev
and got the following response
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
r-base-dev: Depends: build-essential but it is not going to be installed
Depends: g++ but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gfortran but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libncurses5-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libreadline-dev
Depends: libjpeg-dev
Depends: libpcre3-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libpng12-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: zlib1g-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libbz2-dev but it is not going to be installed
Now the funny thing is that if I do
which gfortran
it tells me I have gfortran on my path.
Before I move on to Plan B which is to download the sources and
compile them myself would anyone like to advise me what is going
wrong and whether this will mean that Plan B is doomed to fail before I start.
Plan C is to run one of the Debian or Ubuntu tailored EEE PC versions
off a USB stuck but I find the documentation for doing that hard to grasp.
You might find it helpful to know that more or less all I know of
Linux is gained from reading this list and that I am still at the
stage where I regard setting up a symbolic link as a major achievement.
Michael Dewey
[email protected]
http://www.aghmed.fsnet.co.uk/home.html
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