[R] Sorry - Red Hat 9.0 RPM problem

[Andy Bunn]

Egads. The force worked. It hung when I tried it and the process
resisted killing but when I rebooted R was working. Appologies for
misusing the list. I really didn't think it had worked.

Repentfully, Andy 


On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 16:43, Andy Bunn wrote:
> Excuse the wrong subject header.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Andy Bunn
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 4:29 PM
> To: R Listserv
> Subject: Re: [R] Help with nlme--freq weights, logit model, and more
> 
> 
> Hi, I'm making the painful but liberating step to full-time linux user.
> The switch has been mostly OK. All the stuff I learned when I first sat
> down at a unix box is slowly coming back. But I digress.
> 
> Today I went to CRAN to get the RH 9 RPM:
> 
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/9/i386/
> 
> And, alas I found none and got the RH 8 build instead.
> 
> Here's what happens when I try the RPM:
> 
> [root at facet r.stuff]# rpm -i R-1.7.0-1.i386.rpm
> warning: R-1.7.0-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 97d3544e
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libtcl.so.0 is needed by R-1.7.0-1
>         libtk.so.0 is needed by R-1.7.0-1
> 
> But a newer version of tcl (and tk) was installed with the RH 9
> installation. 
> 
> [root at facet misc.rpms]# rpm -qa | grep -i tcl
> tcl-8.3.5-88
> 
> So, in a short and ill-advised moment of lunacy I forced it:
> 
> [root at facet r.stuff]# rpm -i --nodeps *.rpm
> 
> 
> That went as poorly as one might expect.
>  
> I suppose that I could roll back the tcl version but that seems
> counterproductive. Is there a way to force the rpm? Can somebody smarter
> than me make a good RPM for RH 9?
> 
> I'm loathe to install from source.
> 
> Thanks and I hope this is isn't an embarrassing question.
> 
> -Andy
> 
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