On Nov 9, 2017 5:07 AM, "Florian Oswald" <florian.osw...@gmail.com> wrote:
I can install R with sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install r-base this is not my problem, and indeed, not my question. my question was how could I share the resulting R installation over NFS? Do I have to export every location where apt-get installs a component or can I force apt-get to place the installation in a certain location? Sounds like a question for an ubuntu forum, or r-sig-debian perhaps. On 8 November 2017 at 17:37, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 6:14 AM, Florian Oswald <florian.osw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > hi all, > > > > i want to share an R installation from a master node to several compute > > nodes via NFS. all nodes run ubuntu 16.04. I tried building R from source > > but hit a wall several times because of missing dependencies. > > apt-get build-dep r-base > > should take care of that. > > --Ista > > So I am > > looking for something that uses the usual apt-get install proceedure, but > > would place the installation in the non-standard location. For context, > > right now I would have to share all of > > > > *root@master*:*~* whereis R > > > > R: /usr/bin/R /usr/lib/R /etc/R /usr/local/lib/R /usr/share/R > > /usr/share/man/man1/R.1.gz > > > > and I would like to install R into a new folder on the master node, say, > > NFS_share, and share just that. > > > > I found that `dpkg` has an option `--root=directory` to specify a non > > standard install location for a debian package installation. but i'm not > > even sure how this would work on ubuntu (can i install a debian packge on > > ubuntu?!) > > > > thanks for any help! > > florian > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posti > ng-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
