I think switching from Xandros may be the simplest answer in the long term.
I abandoned Xandros on my Eee 701 and switched it to Ubuntu 10.10 which
I found an OK combination (I haven't upgraded as I hardly ever use that
machine now, I use 11.10 on my main PC). Installation (rather than
running the entire OS) from a USB stick was not too difficult as I
recall, although if you can find someone who will lend you a USB CD
drive installation from a CD would be incredibly simple.
Regards
Mike
On 12/01/2011 03:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Message: 1
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:33:10 +0000
From: Michael Dewey<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [R-sig-Debian] Upgrading R on my EEE PC netbook
Message-ID:<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
I have been successfully been using R on my EEE PC for some while
now. Although it uses Xandros I have been able to install various
pieces of software by pretending that it was Debian etch. Johannes
was kind enough to continue providing binaries on CRAN for a while
but I think I am the only person still living in the past as CRAN
etch is currently stuck at 2.11.0 and I cannot rely on him to be my
personal IT support for ever. So I decided to go it alone despite all
the warnings against such behaviour on this list.
My plan A was to go for a mixed installation by installing from
squeeze and risk that this would update some other software and
chance it breaking something.
So I pointed my entries in sources.list at the squeeze Debian
repository and at the CRAN squeeze repository and did
sudo apt-get update
sudo -s install r-base r-base-dev
and got the following response
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
r-base-dev: Depends: build-essential but it is not going to be installed
Depends: g++ but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gfortran but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libncurses5-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libreadline-dev
Depends: libjpeg-dev
Depends: libpcre3-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libpng12-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: zlib1g-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libbz2-dev but it is not going to be installed
Now the funny thing is that if I do
which gfortran
it tells me I have gfortran on my path.
Before I move on to Plan B which is to download the sources and
compile them myself would anyone like to advise me what is going
wrong and whether this will mean that Plan B is doomed to fail before I start.
Plan C is to run one of the Debian or Ubuntu tailored EEE PC versions
off a USB stuck but I find the documentation for doing that hard to grasp.
You might find it helpful to know that more or less all I know of
Linux is gained from reading this list and that I am still at the
stage where I regard setting up a symbolic link as a major achievement.
Michael Dewey
[email protected]
http://www.aghmed.fsnet.co.uk/home.html
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:51:30 -0500
From: John C Nash<[email protected]>
To: Michael Dewey<[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Upgrading R on my EEE PC netbook
Message-ID:<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
I don't know how committed you are to the Xandros interface. I am friends with
some of the
people who built that distro here in Ottawa. They did a good job, but the
distro is now
dead, and they don't use it themselves any more, so you will definitely be on
your own.
For what it is worth, I've found R runs very nicely on the Eee's using
CrunchBang linux,
which is a debian squeeze variant. I can use the R debian packages.
Best, JN
On 11/30/2011 10:33 AM, Michael Dewey wrote:
I have been successfully been using R on my EEE PC for some while now. Although
it uses
Xandros I have been able to install various pieces of software by pretending
that it was
Debian etch. Johannes was kind enough to continue providing binaries on CRAN
for a while
but I think I am the only person still living in the past as CRAN etch is
currently stuck
at 2.11.0 and I cannot rely on him to be my personal IT support for ever. So I
decided to
go it alone despite all the warnings against such behaviour on this list.
My plan A was to go for a mixed installation by installing from squeeze and
risk that this
would update some other software and chance it breaking something.
So I pointed my entries in sources.list at the squeeze Debian repository and at
the CRAN
squeeze repository and did
sudo apt-get update
sudo -s install r-base r-base-dev
and got the following response
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
r-base-dev: Depends: build-essential but it is not going to be installed
Depends: g++ but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gfortran but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libncurses5-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libreadline-dev
Depends: libjpeg-dev
Depends: libpcre3-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libpng12-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: zlib1g-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libbz2-dev but it is not going to be installed
Now the funny thing is that if I do
which gfortran
it tells me I have gfortran on my path.
Before I move on to Plan B which is to download the sources and compile them
myself would
anyone like to advise me what is going wrong and whether this will mean that
Plan B is
doomed to fail before I start.
Plan C is to run one of the Debian or Ubuntu tailored EEE PC versions off a USB
stuck but
I find the documentation for doing that hard to grasp.
You might find it helpful to know that more or less all I know of Linux is
gained from
reading this list and that I am still at the stage where I regard setting up a
symbolic
link as a major achievement.
Michael Dewey
[email protected]
http://www.aghmed.fsnet.co.uk/home.html
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:52:42 -0800
From: "Kingsley G. Morse Jr."<[email protected]>
To: John C Nash<[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Upgrading R on my EEE PC netbook
Message-ID:<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
On 11/30/11 10:51, John C Nash wrote:
[...]
CrunchBang linux, which is a debian squeeze
variant. I can use the R debian packages.
Nice!
~K
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