[BioC] Problems installing Bioconductor on linux(MEPIS)

[hrishikesh deshmukh]

Dear All,

Here are the commands which i tried and i get the
error:

source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R")
getBioC("all")

Thanks,
Hrishi




--- Robert Gentleman <rgentlem at jimmy.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> 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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