On 21 July 2012 at 09:00, John Kane wrote: | I am makingmy life too complicated? | | I must be misunderstanding something | | john@john-K53U:~$ dpkg -s r-cran-xml | Package `r-cran-xml' is not installed and no info is available. | Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, | and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
"dpkg -s" reports the status of __installed packages__ so you are little circular here. It only reports that you don't have it installed. Try to search for packages via e.g. "apt-cache search r-cran-" | Should I be installing this rather than the XML package (which seems to be installed. Well as you failed to install from source on your own, installing a ready-made binary would seem easier to me, but it is your call. Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
