Reminder: Please test the 2.9.0 beta/rc binaries!
Rolf,
On Apr 10, 2009, at 7:22 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 11/04/2009, at 11:06 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
On Apr 10, 2009, at 6:12 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
David, On Apr 10, 2009, at 5:55 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
I downloaded the Leopard 64 bit pkg: R-2.9-beta-48309.pkg It installed without apparent error. I want to retain version 2.8.1 so I checked to make sure the receipt had been deleted.
The receipts are now superseded in Leopard by an internal database which is controlled by pkgutil, so you have to use pkgutil --forget instead.
I forgot to mention that I also tried that strategem at a bash prompt after reading the MacOSX FAQ and was given the response the no such program could be found. bash: pkutil: command not found I am thinking I may not be properly qualified to be on R's bleeding edge.
Very few are, mate. :-) I likewise got the ``command not found'' jazz when I tried pkgutil from the command line (tcsh not bash). Then I tried the ``locate'' command (which I've recently found out about) and
Are you sure you're talking about Leopard here? I think it is installed in the base OS X 10.5 at /usr/sbin/pkgutil This tool was not present in Tiger or older. Cheers, Simon
locate pkgutil turned up /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ python2.3/pkgutil.py /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ python2.3/pkgutil.pyc /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ python2.3/pkgutil.pyo So pkgutil is a python script. I don't know what to *do* with that information, but! Hoping that this may be a *little* help to you. cheers, Rolf Turner ###################################################################### Attention:This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not theintended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender.Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshalwww.marshalsoftware.com ######################################################################