[R-sig-Debian] Installing R on Ubuntu8.04; episode 3184

[Prasenjit Kapat]

On 5/16/09, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 16 May 2009 at 15:57, Judson wrote:
> | Thanks to everyone who has responded (esp. Michael, I greatly
> | appreciate but also recognize that getting R on my machine is not your
> | career).  Your last response was (basically) uninstall, reboot, retry
> | Synaptic, if no good try:
> |
> | judson at judson:~$ sudo wget
> |
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/hardy/r-base-core_2.9.0-2hardy0_i386.deb
> |
> | I GOT
> |
> | --15:03:02--
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/hardy/r-base-core_2.9.0-2hardy0_i386.deb
> |            => `r-base-core_2.9.0-2hardy0_i386.deb.1'
> | Resolving cran.r-project.org... 137.208.57.37
> | Connecting to cran.r-project.org|137.208.57.37|:80... connected.
> | HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> | Length: 10,742,580 (10M) [application/x-debian-package]
> |
> | 100%[====================================>] 10,742,580   237.44K/s    ETA
> 00:00
> |
> | 15:04:12 (149.96 KB/s) - `r-base-core_2.9.0-2hardy0_i386.deb.1' saved
> | [10742580/10742580]
> |
> | I FOLLOWED
> |
> | judson at judson:~$ sudo dpkg -i r-base-core_2.9.0-2hardy0_i386.deb
> |
> | I GOT
> |
> | dpkg: error processing r-base-core_2.9.0-2hardy0_i386.deb (--install):
> |  package architecture (i386) does not match system (lpia)
> |
> | How is this?  I'm way underprepared here but it's a Dell Inspiron Mini
> | 9", Intel Atom ~1.7 ghz
> |
> | This message is hiding something else.  The Atom is in the i386
> | lineage as surely as Mine That Bird comes down from Seattle Slew, no?
>
> Ohhhhh I once knew that and promptly forgot.  This is the same, apparently,
> for some of the Eee PC netbooks, and possibly other netbooks.
>
> Because your hardware has the magic powersaving functions, "they" decided to
> call it a different hardware platform even though it really is a i386
> (coupled with the cpu frequency scaling or whatever magic they do).
>
> What that means is that ... (wait for it) ... your apt et al (synaptic,
> aptitude, ...) now think you cannot use automatic upgrades.
>
> You did the right thing and you are almost there. You need one more switch
> argument to 'sudo dpkg -i r-base-core*deb' to override the apparent hardware
> mismatch between lpia and i386.
>
> I think, looking at 'dpkg --force-help', that you want
>
>   sudo dpkg --force-architecture --install
> r-base-core_2.9.0-2hardy0_i386.deb
>
> Try that, and google around the Debian / Ubuntu netbook help sites, wiki,
> forums, ... to see how you can override that for good so that the 'lpia vs
> i386' issue won't kill you.

Looking here: http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/universe/r/r-base/  I see
that r-base-core 2.9.0 is available for the "lpia" arch. But I wonder
which ubuntu release it is for! Careful use of apt pinning might work.

-- 
Prasenjit