[R] suse 9.1 x86_64 rpms?

[Kristian Eric Markon]

Thanks for the help.

You were all right--I was missing the -devel versions of a few of the 
packages.

Everything seems to be working well in 64-bit so far.



Peter Dalgaard wrote:

>Kristian Eric Markon <mark0060 at tc.umn.edu> writes:
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>>I noticed on the mailing list archives and through Google searches
>>that a couple of months ago there was discussion of maintaining rpms
>>for suse 9.1 on the x86_64 architecture.
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>>Are these rpms still planning on being released? It would help me a
>>great deal.
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>Detlef Steuer is the only one to know...
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>>I've tried compiling from source using the R-base spec files provided
>>on CRAN. Using that, I am able to produce a running version of R, but
>>readline doesn't seem to be working, nor does x11(). Moreover, I'm not
>>sure that the compiled version is actually running in 64-bit mode.
>>I've double-checked all the required libraries, and I seem to have
>>them all to the correct version number (including readline and xfree).
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>It'll be 64-bit alright unless you take explicit steps to the contrary.
>If you want to make d*mn sure, calculate the size of an Ncell from the
>gc() output (56 bytes on 64bit 28 bytes otherwise).
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>Compiling on SuSE 9.1 *does* work, but you seem to be missing a couple
>of RPMs in your installation. Usual suspects are the ones that end
>with -devel, such as
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>alsa-devel-1.0.3-36
>db1-devel-1.85-78
>esound-devel-0.2.33-30
>fontconfig-devel-2.2.92.20040221-24
>freetype2-devel-2.1.7-46
>glibc-devel-2.3.3-63
>glib-devel-1.2.10-337
>gnome-libs-devel-1.4.1.7-614
>gtk-devel-1.2.10-488
>ImageMagick-devel-5.5.7-225.9
>imlib-devel-1.9.14-180.11
>libglade2-devel-2.0.1-437
>libglade-devel-0.17-190
>libpng-devel-1.2.5-182.10
>libstdc++-devel-3.3.3-33
>libxml2-devel-2.6.7-28.7
>libxml-devel-1.8.17-366.4
>mozilla-devel-1.6-53
>ncurses-devel-5.4-61.3
>orbit-devel-0.5.17-330
>pstoedit-devel-3.33-161
>readline-devel-4.3-301
>tcl-devel-8.4.6-23
>tk-devel-8.4.6-28
>xforms-devel-1.0-259
>XFree86-devel-32bit-9.1-200404070910
>XFree86-devel-4.3.99.902-30
>XFree86-Mesa-devel-4.3.99.902-30
>zlib-devel-1.2.1-70.6
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>Those are what I have, some are irrelevant, but at least the readline,
>ncurses, XFree86, and tcl/tk are crucial for compiling a "normal" R,
>and several of the others are needed for Gnome support, the Mesa stuff
>for RGL, etc. (Hmm... looks like I'm actually missing the bzip2
>headers myself).
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