[R] Installing R in Linux 8.0

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Javier Arsuaga <jarsuaga at cc.ucsf.edu> writes:

> 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...?????

Wouldn't know about the locking issue -- usually means that you have
two processes trying to do RPM things. However, the "mlx" in the RPM
you found suggests that it may be for a non-RedHat distribution
(muLinux??). There's supposed to be a blas in RedHat itself:

[pd at turmalin R]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libblas.so.3
blas-3.0-18

so I suggest you get that and install instead.  I believe Martyn
recently compiled a list of RedHat packages that were necessary to
install the RPMs and placed them somewhere easily findable.

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