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

[Joseph Brian Adams, Ph.D.]

Thanks for all of your help.  This is the response that I received 
from the LinuxPPC group.

The egcs compiler is now the official gnu compiler.  So gcc version
2.95.2 (shipping with LinuxPPC 2000) is actually the egcs compiler.
If you --force the install everything should work fine.

Since the gcc and g77 files are installed, I did an rpm --nodeps ... 
and it installed fine.

Brian

>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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