I have a Dell netbook, fortunately bought when Windows was available only as an extra-price option, and fortunately bought when Dell offered netbooks without hard drives. (HDs add a bit of weight and drain more than a bit of battery power, and aren't needed for netbooks, in my view.)
The machine came with Ubuntu 8.04 installed, and I haven't upgraded. I recently installed the new version of R, 2.10.0 using apt-get, and the installation went fine except for a message which went something like, "Inconsistency found in your packages. Would you like this to be fixed?" Innocently I answered yes, and found that what it did was to restore the old R, 2.6.2 or something like that. :-( So, I re-installed 2.10.0, this time ignoring the warning message. The result is that R is fine but apt-get is not. Any time I try to download anything with apt-get (or Synaptic, which I assume is a wrapper), it gives me that same error message, and refuses to do the install. Any ideas out there? Norm _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
