[R] Installing R in Linux 8.0

[Javier Arsuaga]

I am trying to install R in Linux 8.0 and I downloaded
"R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm" and did rpm -hiv R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm 
and I am getting the following message:

warning: R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
97d3544e
error: Failed dependencies:
        libblas.so.3 is needed by R-1.7.1-1

        Then I went and look for libblas (which is a linear algebra
library) that I found in

        http://www.hklpg.org/RPM/libblas.so.3.html

        and downloaded
		blas-3.0-9.1mlx.i386.rpm

        Tried to do rpm -hiv blas-3.0-9.1mlx.i386.rpm 

	and got

        error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted
(1)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

        Any suggestions, idea, help...?????

        Thanks a lot