[R] R installation error

[Emre Sahin]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 01:33:34PM +0100, Meenu Chopra wrote:
> Thanks to all
> 
> The main problem with ma linux system is that its not able to install any
> software using sudo command.
> like i used command yum search libX11 , it shown that yum is not installed
> and when i use sudo apt-get install yum
> its giving error
> E: Unable to locate package yum
> same problem with all software.
> 
> even when u use sudo apt-get update it shows error like
> 
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://old.releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
> 404  Not Found
> 
> I am not getting whats wrong with my system
> 
> Please help me out

yum is the package manager for Red Hat family systems, like CentOS,
Fedora etc. 

You're using Ubuntu and don't need yum. You should use apt-get, or
better aptitude to install packages. 

Could you try: 

$ sudo aptitude install r-base 

in a terminal?

Best. 

E.