[R] Mandrake 10.1

[bogdan romocea]

I managed to install R 2.0.1 on Mandrake 10.1 a couple of weeks ago. It
wasn't that easy, first I had to manually track, download and install
3-4 dependencies.

I would suggest that you consider another GNU/Linux distribution,
Mepis. Mepis combines the best features of several distributions:
	- You can run it from CD, like Knoppix/Quantian.
	- If you like it, you can easily install it on your hard drive (unlike
Knoppix/Quantian). Just double click an icon and a graphical wizard
will guide you through the installation steps. It's as easy to install
as Mandrake, perhaps a bit easier (automatic hardware detection and
configuration etc).
	- Package management is done automatically (no more annoying
notifications from Mdk's urpmi - like sorry, can't do this, go ahead
and figure it out by yourself). You can use Synaptic or apt-get, and
you can install packages from the Debian testing and unstable
repositories (which is great). Unlike Debian though, Mepis is much
easier to install (imho).

As someone who went through several failed installation attempts
(Gentoo, Debian, Quantian), primarily due to hardware issues which I
didn't have the patience to try to fix, I appreciate a lot what Mepis
has to offer. You can have a complete system (R + packages etc) up and
running in 30 minutes starting from scratch (assuming you have
broadband) -- which is about what it would take you to fix the
dependencies for just one binary (such as R-2.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm) on
Mandrake.

hth,
b.


-----Original Message-----
From: Christian [mailto:christianmacaro at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 1:21 PM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Mandrake 10.1


Dear all,

I am trying to install the R-2.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm 
<http://cran.planetmirror.com/bin/linux/mandrake/10.0/R-2.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm>

file   on mandrake 10.1. Since the file is, originally, meant for 
Mandrake 10.0, it is not surprising me that the installation does not
work.

The error message that I get can be translated in something like: 
"impossible to install since the info is not satisfied".
Could you please help me in installing R on my Mandrake 10.1?

PS If you feel to answer me,  consider that I am almost an absolute 
beginner at linux:)

Thanks a lot

Christian

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