[R] Missing dependencies in installing R-base-1.0.0-1

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> writes:

> "Joseph Brian Adams, Ph.D." <brian_adams at jbadams.com> writes:
> 
> > I recently upgraded to LinuxPPC 2000.  When I tried to reinstall the 
> > R rpm, I was missing the following dependent files:  egcs, egcs-g77, 
> > and libf2c.so.0  Is there an upgrade or a fix to this?
> > 
> > Brian Adams
> 
> Er, ... R depends on those packages and files which most likely are to
> be found on your LinuxPPC CD. 
> 
> What is the problem? That you cannot install R without installing
> those packages first, or that R installs even with those packages
> absent and crashes on startup? Either way you need to get the items
> installed.

Oh, I think I get it now: they changed the compiler suite for the new
version? We'll be getting that problem on RedHat sooner or later as
well. What you *really* need is a C compiler, a Fortran compiler and
the libf2c library, so if you install those[1] it might be possible to
install R with "rpm -i --force ...". In fact it might even work
without the compilers until you try installing packages off of the net.

[1] I don't know the LinuxPPC setup, but they would likely be found in
packages named gcc and g77. I'm not too sure about the f2c item.

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