[ESS] migrating from windows to linux. I'm sweating!!!

[McClatchie, Sam (PIRSA-SARDI)]

 Hello

I recently shifted to Ubuntu linux from Debian and was pleasantly surprised at the integrated install for emacs (or xemacs)/ ESS and R. You can do the lot with apt-get install and the integration is seamless (no more editing .el files for example). So, if you are a newbie you can make it easy on yourself by switching distros.

Sam
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
>[mailto:ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of 
>Rodney Sparapani
>Sent: Friday, 19 May 2006 7:22 AM
>To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>Subject: Re: [ESS] migrating from windows to linux. I'm sweating!!!
>
>8rino-Luca Pantani wrote:
>> Dear list members,
>
>> put into a directory (/mnt/linwin/....../ess) and run the command
>> 
>> tar -xvf ess-VERSION.tar.gz
>> 
>> receiving a lot of
>> "Impossible to do chown a uid 2110 and gid 300. Operation 
>not permitted"
>> 
>> Where am I wrong ?
>> 
>> Thanks to you all for such open source world !!!!
>> 
>> Ottorino-Luca Pantani, Università di Firenze
>
>Hi:
>
>A couple of things.  First the docs say that the command is 
>something else than what you had:
>tar -zxf ess-VERSION.tar.gz
>
>Secondly, to get around the owner/group problems, there is tar 
>--owner=SOMETHING --group=SOMETHING
>
>For more details, try tar --help or man tar.
>
>Rodney
>
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