[R] r under suse

[Detlef Steuer]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:33:53 -0600
Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 19:15 -0500, ursu at DMS.UMontreal.CA wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I've been using R under win XP and I am now changing my system to opensuse 10.2
> > When using:
> > rpm -i R-base-2.4.1-2.1.i586.rpm
> > 
> > I find something like that
> > 
> > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/R/library/tcltk/exec/util.tc        ;45b943fe:
> > cpio: read failed - Bad file descriptor
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > Regards
> > Eugen
> 
> The first thing that comes to mind is the possibility that the RPM file
> that you downloaded is corrupted.
> 
> I would re-download the RPM file, possibly from a different CRAN mirror,
> and try it again.

or try downloading from software.opensuse.org as described in the readme.

detlef

> 
> HTH,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
> 
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