Hi Chris, On 15 November 2012 at 11:36, Chris Sims wrote: | Since upgrading to quantal, I find that synaptic and apt-get cannot read | the sources.list file if it includes the previously standard line | | deb http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu/ quantal | | This line makes apt-get or synaptic give an error message identifying | this line as having a syntax error. | | If "multiverse" is added at the end of the line, the line is parsed, but | then apt-get or synaptic looks for non-existent directories on the server.
It may be the dreaded missing slash -- I have this deb http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu quantal/ on a recently set-up machine, and 'wajig update' (with wajig being a nice cmdline wrapper by fellow R hacker Graham Williams) reveals, inter alia, deddelbuettel@ubuntu-m600-1:~/R$ wajig update [...] Ign http://cran.us.r-project.org quantal/ InRelease Hit http://cran.us.r-project.org quantal/ Release.gpg Hit http://cran.us.r-project.org quantal/ Release Hit http://cran.us.r-project.org quantal/ Packages Ign http://cran.us.r-project.org quantal/ Translation-en [...] Hope this helps, 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
