Apologies if this is the incorrect place for this question.? New Debian user here (via WSL on Windows). I've been installing packages (using install.packages) in to /usr/local/lin/R/site-library without problem until I tried to install xml2. When installing it gives the error message: mv: cannot move '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/00LOCK-xml2/00new/xml2' to '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/xml2': Permission denied I've added myself to the staff group and other packages have installed without issue. For information I'm running Debian Buster. Any pointers / suggestions as to where I'm going wrong? Regards Tim
permission problems -xml2
3 messages · Tim Taylor, Tomas Kalibera
If you haven't done that already, you can try with the latest R-devel/R-patched. A similar issue has been reported earlier for virtualized environments where the move operation was not working properly, so R now falls back to copying. But please be aware that R is currently not being tested/supported on WSL, you would likely run into more problems, it is not the same as running natively on Debian. Best Tomas
On 6/13/19 12:16 PM, Tim Taylor wrote:
Apologies if this is the incorrect place for this question.? New Debian user here (via WSL on Windows). I've been installing packages (using install.packages) in to /usr/local/lin/R/site-library without problem until I tried to install xml2. When installing it gives the error message: mv: cannot move '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/00LOCK-xml2/00new/xml2' to '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/xml2': Permission denied I've added myself to the staff group and other packages have installed without issue. For information I'm running Debian Buster. Any pointers / suggestions as to where I'm going wrong? Regards Tim
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The issue was WSL (the installation still would not work on R-devel/R-patched). I have now installed WSL2 and the installation worked straight away. Regards
From: Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera at gmail.com>
Sent: 13 June 2019 13:58
To: Tim Taylor; r-sig-debian at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] permission problems -xml2
Sent: 13 June 2019 13:58
To: Tim Taylor; r-sig-debian at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] permission problems -xml2
If you haven't done that already, you can try with the latest R-devel/R-patched. A similar issue has been reported earlier for virtualized environments where the move operation was not working properly, so R now falls back to copying. But please be aware that R is currently not being tested/supported on WSL, you would likely run into more problems, it is not the same as running natively on Debian. Best Tomas On 6/13/19 12:16 PM, Tim Taylor wrote: > Apologies if this is the incorrect place for this question. New > Debian user here (via WSL on Windows). I've been installing packages > (using install.packages) in to /usr/local/lin/R/site-library without > problem until I tried to install xml2. When installing it gives the > error message: > > mv: cannot move '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/00LOCK-xml2/00new/xml2' > to '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/xml2': Permission denied > > I've added myself to the staff group and other packages have installed > without issue. For information I'm running Debian Buster. > > Any pointers / suggestions as to where I'm going wrong? > > Regards > > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > R-SIG-Debian at r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian >