[R-sig-Debian] Conflict Between R and multimedia repositories

[Paul Johnson]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.isella at gmail.com> wrote:
> ?
>>
>> Let me recap
>>
>>      i)   without Debian multimedia it works
>>      ii)  with Debian multimedia it does not work
>>
>> and you think the R site is to blame? Why?
I'm looking at a clean Ubuntu 9.10 install, not Debian.

But, for what it is worth.  I inserted

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main

at the end of /etc/apt/sources.list just as you put it, and it does
work for me, except I did not download their security key


Fetched 147kB in 1s (113kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release: The
following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is
not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907

Then I added this line to sources.list:

deb http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu karmic/

Get:1 http://cran.wustl.edu karmic/ Release.gpg [197B]
Ign http://cran.wustl.edu karmic/ Translation-en_US
Hit http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu karmic-updates/main Packages
Ign http://mirrors.xmission.com karmic-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://mirrors.xmission.com karmic-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://mirrors.xmission.com karmic-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://mirrors.xmission.com karmic-updates Release
Hit http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu karmic-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu karmic-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu karmic-updates/multiverse Packages
Get:2 http://cran.wustl.edu karmic/ Release [1,344B]
Hit http://mirrors.xmission.com karmic-updates/main Packages
Ign http://cran.wustl.edu karmic/ Packages
Get:3 http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release.gpg [198B]
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.canonical.com karmic Release.gpg

I think this means that the two things are not inherently incompatible
and that there is something funky in the way you are changing the
files so as to break the grammar.

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Paul E. Johnson
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