[BioC] Problems installing Bioconductor on linux(MEPIS)

[Robert Gentleman]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:25:50PM -0800, hrishikesh deshmukh wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> This is the error message which i get while i am
> trying to install bioconductor on  linux(MEPIS).Please
> help.

  Hi,
   Is it an R with version number larger than 2.0.0? If not you must
   upgrade. 

   Are you trying to use getBioC? And if so what command did you give,
  and what was the output?

  This looks to be a problem with your installation (perhaps missing
   capabilities). 

  Can you try to use install.packages to install something from CRAN,
  see if that works and then we will know it is likely to be BioC
  related or R related.

  

> 
> [1] "Installing reposTools ..."
> * Installing *source* package 'reposTools' ...
> Error in lazyLoadDBfetch(key, datafile, compressed,
> envhook) : 
>         internal error in decompress1
> Execution halted
> ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed
> Error in getReposTools(develOK, PLATFORM, destdir,
> method = method, bioCoption = bioCoption) : 
>         Failed to install package reposTools
> 
> Thanks,
> Hrishi
> 
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