[ESS] migrating from windows to linux. I'm sweating!!!

[renato corbetta]

Try to gunzip ESS before untarring it:

gunzip ess-5.3.0.tar.gz

Then:

tar -xvf ess-5.3.0.tar

Good luck!

RC


8rino-Luca Pantani wrote:

>Dear list members,
>I finally decide to migrate to linux, therefore I bought a new laptop
>(ibm Z60t) and dive into this world.
>After years of Windows (from 3.1 for dos!!) I feel myself like after a bike
>accident. I have to do re-learn how to walk.
>
>I'm trying hard, but it is quite satisfying to see that you can have such a
>complete control over the machine.
>
>For everyday work on stat I'm still using XEmacs + ESS under win 2000.
>I'm used to the buttons "line" "para" "region" from Prof. Fox, and I would
>like to install a similar environment on linux, but I realize that this will
>be a very demanding task to me
>(I still need to be in the lab,
>teach and write papers in the meanwhile !! ).
>
>But still I'm experimenting with linux.
>I did the following on linux (as root)
>
>yum install Xemacs
>
>and I've been following the instuctions on
>http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/readme.html#Unix-installation
>
>I've downloaded  ess-5.3.0.tar.gz
>
>put into a directory (/mnt/linwin/....../ess) and run the command
>
>tar -xvf ess-VERSION.tar.gz
>
>receiving a lot of
>"Impossible to do chown a uid 2110 and gid 300. Operation not permitted"
>
>Where am I wrong ?
>
>Thanks to you all for such open source world !!!!
>
>Ottorino-Luca Pantani, Università di Firenze
>Dip. Scienza del Suolo e Nutrizione della Pianta
>P.zle Cascine 28 50144 Firenze Italia
>http://www.unifi.it/dssnp/
>
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>

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