[R-sig-Debian] Trying to install R on Lucid Lynx

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 19 November 2010 at 20:34, Michael Rutter wrote:
| 
| 
| On 11/19/2010 07:56 PM, Dennis Murphy wrote:
| > Hi:
| > 
| > I installed Lucid Lynx amd64 on my system today, dual booted with Win 7.
| > I've managed to install several packages through the Ubuntu Software
| > Center with success and also installed texlive. Alas, installing my favorite
| > software has not been so joyful. I went through the last few months
| > of posts in this group to find something similar, but to no avail.
| > 
| > After a couple of false starts, I found this web page:
| > http://blog.joelotz.net/?p=225
| > which seems to be doing the right thing and condenses some of the
| > information I saw elsewhere rather nicely.
| > 
| > I added the fhcrc site to the bottom of sources.list and copied all
| > the commands into my bash window. Everything is fine up to
| > sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
| > 
| > 
| > I got the following response from the terminal:
| > 
| > dennis at dennis-PC:~$ sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
| > Reading package lists... Done
| > Building dependency tree
| > Reading state information... Done
| > The following extra packages will be installed:
| >   build-essential dpatch dpkg-dev fakeroot g++ g++-4.4 gfortran gfortran-4.4
| >   libblas-dev libbz2-dev libjpeg62-dev liblapack-dev libncurses5-dev
| >   libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 libpng12-dev libreadline-dev libreadline6-dev
| >   libstdc++6-4.4-dev patch patchutils r-base-core r-base-html r-cran-boot
| >   r-cran-class r-cran-cluster r-cran-codetools r-cran-foreign
| >   r-cran-kernsmooth r-cran-lattice r-cran-mass r-cran-matrix r-cran-mgcv
| >   r-cran-nlme r-cran-nnet r-cran-rpart r-cran-spatial r-cran-survival
| >   r-doc-html r-recommended xz-utils zlib1g-dev
| > Suggested packages:
| >   curl debian-keyring debian-maintainers g++-multilib g++-4.4-multilib
| >   gcc-4.4-doc libstdc++6-4.4-dbg gfortran-multilib gfortran-doc
| >   gfortran-4.4-multilib gfortran-4.4-doc libgfortran3-dbg libstdc++6-4.4-doc
| >   diffutils-doc ess r-doc-info r-doc-pdf r-mathlib cdbs debhelper
| > The following NEW packages will be installed:
| >   build-essential dpatch dpkg-dev fakeroot g++ g++-4.4 gfortran gfortran-4.4
| >   libblas-dev libbz2-dev libjpeg62-dev liblapack-dev libncurses5-dev
| >   libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 libpng12-dev libreadline-dev libreadline6-dev
| >   libstdc++6-4.4-dev patch patchutils r-base r-base-core r-base-dev
| >   r-base-html r-cran-boot r-cran-class r-cran-cluster r-cran-codetools
| >   r-cran-foreign r-cran-kernsmooth r-cran-lattice r-cran-mass r-cran-matrix
| >   r-cran-mgcv r-cran-nlme r-cran-nnet r-cran-rpart r-cran-spatial
| >   r-cran-survival r-doc-html r-recommended xz-utils zlib1g-dev
| > 0 upgraded, 44 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
| > Need to get 0B/47.1MB of archives.
| > After this operation, 115MB of additional disk space will be used.
| > Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
| > Media change: please insert the disc labeled
| >  'Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release amd64 (20100816.1)'
| > in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter

You need to remove the entry for the cdrom from /etc/apt/sources.list -- you
can do that by hand but maybe one of the GUI tools to package management
interfaces do it too.

Besides this, Michael's points below are spot-on too.

Dirk

| > at which point the shell hangs after entering.
| > 
| > I installed Ubuntu from a bootable CD-ROM this morning, using
| > 
| > http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/dual-boot-windows-7-ubuntu.html
| > 
| > as a guide, particularly for setting up the file system. Because I have a
| > Dell,
| > three primary partitions were already taken up. I took about 450Gb off my
| > hard drive for Ubuntu and created the fourth partition for it as shown in
| > the link
| > above. I don't know if it has any bearing on the present problem, but
| > in case it does...
| > 
| > 
| > I've gotten the same response in the shell after each of four attempts,
| > including two where I only asked to install r-base...at least the error is
| > repeatable :) I'm hoping to find a way to get R installed in the 'usual'
| > way.
| > 
| > I'm an utter newbie in Linux so you may have to talk slow-ly to me.
| > 
| > TIA for any help.
| > 
| > Dennis
| > 
| Dennis,
| 
| 1.  Did you run "sudo apt-get update" before trying to install R.  It
| may not know to look at the CRAN mirror yet.
| 
| 2.  What does the line you entered in "etc/apt/sources.list" look like?
|  There may be an error there.
| 
| Michael
| 
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