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:
jud...@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 jud...@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? Thanks everyone. Judson _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
