Linux

[bryangoodrich]

It's a URL. Copy and paste it into your browser. It doesn't work (404 error means the document isn't found). Take off CRAN and you have a working URL. That's all these repos are. A link to where some files are located (like an FTP).

[Dason]

Looks like you have an extra CRAN in there. You want to have

deb http://cran.csiro.au/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/

The iastate setup has the CRAN part as the root of the mirror so it looks different compared to other mirrors. But the CRAN part isn't always a part of a mirror's address.

[bugman]

Thanks bryan,
I have pasted this into ...sources .list

deb http://cran.stat.auckland.ac.nz/bin/...buntu/precise/

and now get the following:

E: Malformed line 11 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist)
E: The list of sources could not be read.

[Dason]

There needs to be a space between the final ubuntu and the precise/

deb http://cran.csiro.au/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/

That space is important

But you should be able to use the code I put in my previous two posts directly?

[bugman]

Bryan, Dason,

thats so helpful you guys. Thankyou both!

So now that is set up, any additional updates will only require:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base

Is that right?

That's sweet!!

[bryangoodrich]

Did that work and install the latest version? You usually don't do it manually because your package manager (by default) periodically does checks for updates (i.e., it runs apt-get update which refreshes the indexes of the repos given your sources.list to identify updates). I know Ubuntu bugs the hell out of me by saying I have updates every day I need to look up (which amounts to clicking "okay" to update).

[Dason]

So now that is set up, any additional updates will only require:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base

I guess that works but I think it's more typically to use

sudo apt-get upgrade

in place of the install r-base.

[bugman]

Even better.

[Dason]

Did that work and install the latest version? You usually don't do it manually because your package manager (by default) periodically does checks for updates (i.e., it runs apt-get update which refreshes the indexes of the repos given your sources.list to identify updates). I know Ubuntu bugs the hell out of me by saying I have updates every day I need to look up (which amounts to clicking "okay" to update).

You can change how often it checks for updates. I think I have mine set to weekly but I rarely ever use the update manager. I just have an alias set to "uu" for "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade" which makes it easy enough to update my system.

[bugman]

Nice. Thanks.

[bugman]

Did that work and install the latest version? You usually don't do it manually because your package manager (by default) periodically does checks for updates (i.e., it runs apt-get update which refreshes the indexes of the repos given your sources.list to identify updates). I know Ubuntu bugs the hell out of me by saying I have updates every day I need to look up (which amounts to clicking "okay" to update).

Yeah it did. My manager hasn't been much of a manager in this respect. Im not sure if its a bug in Mint 13 or if I havn't configured my settings correctly.

[Dason]

There is finally a reliable workaround to get Netflix Instant Streaming to work! It looks like right now it's only easily done using Ubuntu but I know I read something somewhere that implied to me that one could implement the same things in this workaround on other distros - it's just not as nicely packaged right now.

Here is where I found about this: http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/11/...sktop-app.html

Here is how to get it:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop

So excited!