R SIG Debian - Jan 2009 - Ubuntu and sources.list question about mirror sites...

Evening all:

Thought I'd announce myself with a question about setting up
sources.list to be able to begin download and install of R.

Running version 7.10 of Ubuntu. (Tried 8.04 but found it slow and
finicky with my hardware. Perhaps will try 8.10 or above, but that's a
thought for another time.)

Followed the notes on the R site and added the following lines to my
sources.list:

deb http://probability.ca/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu gutsy/

deb http://releases.ubuntu.com/ hardy-backports main restricted univer

The first seems to pass muster just fine. The second line has been the
problem. That's the fourth site I tried plugging in and I get 404ed
every time.

I do run the Firestarter firewall but that shouldn't be a problem,
should it? If it blocked that would it not have blocked all updating?

Is the line correctly formed? Is there a site that will work? Is that
line strictly necessary, or can I drop it as unneeded with the Gibbon?

Any help much appreciated...
-- 
Brian Lunergan
Nepean, Ontario
Canada

Brian,

Two things.  Don't mix ubuntu versions.  Since you are using gutsy,
use the gutsy backports.  Also, I would use a different server.  Try
this:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-backports main restricted
universe multiverse

That should work.

Michael

---
Dr. Michael A. Rutter
School of Science
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Station Road
Erie, PA 16563
http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Brian Lunergan <ff809 at ncf.ca>
wrote:
> Evening all:
>
> Thought I'd announce myself with a question about setting up
> sources.list to be able to begin download and install of R.
>
> Running version 7.10 of Ubuntu. (Tried 8.04 but found it slow and
> finicky with my hardware. Perhaps will try 8.10 or above, but that's a
> thought for another time.)
>
> Followed the notes on the R site and added the following lines to my
> sources.list:
>
> deb http://probability.ca/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu gutsy/
>
> deb http://releases.ubuntu.com/ hardy-backports main restricted univer
>
> The first seems to pass muster just fine. The second line has been the
> problem. That's the fourth site I tried plugging in and I get 404ed
> every time.
>
> I do run the Firestarter firewall but that shouldn't be a problem,
> should it? If it blocked that would it not have blocked all updating?
>
> Is the line correctly formed? Is there a site that will work? Is that
> line strictly necessary, or can I drop it as unneeded with the Gibbon?
>
> Any help much appreciated...
> --
> Brian Lunergan
> Nepean, Ontario
> Canada
>
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Le ven. 16 janv. ? 20:18, Brian Lunergan a ?crit :
> Evening all:
>
> Thought I'd announce myself with a question about setting up
> sources.list to be able to begin download and install of R.
>
> Running version 7.10 of Ubuntu. (Tried 8.04 but found it slow and
> finicky with my hardware. Perhaps will try 8.10 or above, but that's a
> thought for another time.)
Just be aware that we will drop support for Gutsy at the same time as  
Ubuntu, i.e. next April.
> Followed the notes on the R site and added the following lines to my
> sources.list:
>
> deb http://probability.ca/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu gutsy/
>
> deb http://releases.ubuntu.com/ hardy-backports main restricted univer
Incomplete (s/b universe, not univer) and, as Michael pointed out, you  
shouldn't mix versions. The README says

"Therefore, it is suggested to activate the backports repositories  
with an entry like..."

The "like" was meant to avoid repeating the entry for each release and
to imply "adjust accordingly for your release".

Regards,

Vincent
>
>
> The first seems to pass muster just fine. The second line has been the
> problem. That's the fourth site I tried plugging in and I get 404ed
> every time.
>
> I do run the Firestarter firewall but that shouldn't be a problem,
> should it? If it blocked that would it not have blocked all updating?
>
> Is the line correctly formed? Is there a site that will work? Is that
> line strictly necessary, or can I drop it as unneeded with the Gibbon?
>
> Any help much appreciated...
> -- 
> Brian Lunergan
> Nepean, Ontario
> Canada
>
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