On 5/16/09, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@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: > | > | 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? > > 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 _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian