On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Norm Matloff wrote: > 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
Did you update your packages to the latest for 8.04? If this didn't update R along with the rest of the packages, did you have to add a 8.10+ repository to install R 2.10? Chris _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
