The problem is that the sources.list line is seen as having a syntax error when there is no entry after "quantal" (e.g. main, or universe, etc.) on the line. So it doesn't matter which repository name I put in it. I have tried several (including the one you suggest) already.
Here is the offending line from my /etc/apt/sources.list file deb http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ quantal Does your system have exactly this line, or some variation on it? On 11/15/2012 01:02 PM, Douglas Bates wrote: > I suggest you try another CRAN mirror. I use cran.us.r-project.org > <http://cran.us.r-project.org> and don't have any problems. As that > mirror is the site of the Bioconductor project, they are very good > about keeping the mirror up to date. > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Chris Sims <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[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
