[R-sig-Debian] Rattle - libglade not found

Fri Oct 30 16:41:30 CET 2009

Graham,

It appears that the mail client I was using added some extra stuff.  It 
should be:

deb http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/bin/linux/ubuntu jaunty/

Just tested this line in my sources.list and it came back fine.

Michael

Graham Smith wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> Thanks for this, I have added CRAN like this before, during one of
> many other attempts with Linux, but if If I add your code as suggested
> or add the repository via synaptic, I get a 404 error
> 
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/bin/linux/ubuntu/dists/<http://<my.favorite.cran.mirror>/bin/linux/ubuntu>/jaunty//binary-i386/Packages
>  404 Not Found
> 
> I have also tried the UK and Netherlands mirrors as well, but both of
> these also give a 404 error.
> 
> I assume I am doing something stupid.
> 
> Graham
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2009/10/30 Michael Rutter <mar36 at psu.edu>:
>> Graham,
>>
>> The instructions for adding the CRAN repositories are here:
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
>>
>> But let me expand on them a little.  This is assuming you have sudo rights.
>>  If you do not, forward this email to your administrator.
>>
>> In a terminal, enter
>>
>> sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
>>
>> At the very end of this file, add the following two lines:
>>
>> ## CRAN
>>
>> deb http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/bin/linux/ubuntu
>> <http://%3Cmy.favorite.cran.mirror%3E/bin/linux/ubuntu> jaunty/
>>
>>
>> Save and close the editor.  Then in the terminal run these lines:
>>
>> gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key E2A11821
>> gpg -a --export E2A11821 | sudo apt-key add -
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get install r-base
>>
>>
>> This will authenticate the code, remove the old R and install the newest
>> version.
>>
>> For a program like R in which there is constant development and bug fixes
>> (but not many), it is a good idea to use the most recent version from CRAN.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>> Graham Smith wrote:
>>> Paul,
>>>
>>> Thanks, 2.8.1 is the most up to date in the Ubuntu Repository, so that
>>> is the one I am using with Ubuntu. As a novice Ubuntu user I have been
>>> given the impression that it is best to stick with the version via
>>> synaptic/ubuntu repository BUT i agree this could well be a version
>>> incompatibility issue as rattle isn't available from the Ubuntu
>>> repository and installed directly from CRAN.
>>>
>>> Maybe I need to uninstall the Ubuntu repository version and install
>>> the latest from CRAN. I admit I find this what to install from where a
>>> bit confusing.
>>>
>>> Graham
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2009/10/30 Paul Leo <p.leo at uq.edu.au>:
>>>
>>>> That a very outdated version of R, current is R2.10
>>>>
>>>> I just installed r2.10 and used
>>>> setRepositories() # choose CRAN
>>>> install.packages() # choose rattle
>>>> ...
>>>> ** preparing package for lazy loading
>>>> Loading required package: XML
>>>> Warning: package 'XML' was built under R version 2.7.1 and help may not
>>>> work correctly
>>>> ** help
>>>> *** installing help indices
>>>> ** building package indices ...
>>>> * DONE (rattle)
>>>>
>>>> ... ignored warnings:
>>>>
>>>> library(rattle)
>>>> rattle() # launched a gui interface that seems to work
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>>
>>>> R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
>>>> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>>  [3] LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8
>>>>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8
>>>>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_AU.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>>>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>>>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>>>> base
>>>>
>>>> other attached packages:
>>>> [1] RGtk2_2.12.5-3 rattle_2.5.1   pmml_1.2.19    XML_1.95-3
>>>>
>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>> [1] tcltk_2.10.0 tools_2.10.0
>>>>
>>>> so perhaps a new intall and check those "attached packages listed above"
>>>> I have ubuntu 8.1 so you may need to check those library versions
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Graham Smith <myotisone at gmail.com>
>>>> To: r-sig-debian at r-project.org
>>>> Subject: [R-sig-Debian] Rattle - libglade not found
>>>> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:07:02 +0000
>>>>
>>>> I have just installed rattle on Ubntu 9.04, and R  2.8.1 and get an
>>>> error message when I try to run it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> library(rattle)
>>>>> rattle()
>>>>>
>>>> Error in rattle() :
>>>>  The RGtk2 package did not find libglade installed. Please install it.
>>>>
>>>> I have installed libglade2-dev  through synaptic, and following
>>>> suggestion from an earlier thread re-installed RGtk2 using
>>>> install.packages, and through synaptic.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone offer some help - you may realise that I am not that
>>>> familiar with Linux/Ubuntu.
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Graham
>>>>
>>>> P.S. I have cross posted this on the Ubuntu forum, before remembering
>>>> this forum existed.
>>>>
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