[R] FW: Suse RPM installation problem

[Detlef Steuer]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:01:06 +0100
"Stephen Henderson" <s.henderson at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hello 
> 
> I am trying to install the R RPM for Suse 10.0 on an x86_64 PC. However
> I am failing a dependency for  "libpng12.so.0" straight away

Hi Stephen,


if you add 

http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/dsteuer/SUSE_Linux_10.0/

as installation source, dependencies should get resolved automatically.

Hth
Detlef

> 
> 
> 
>     PC5-140:/home/rmgzshd # rpm -i R-base-2.5.0-2.1.x86_64.rpm
>     error: Failed dependencies:
>     libpng12.so.0(PNG12_0)(64bit) is needed by R-base-2.5.0-2.1.x86_64
> 
> I do seem to have this file
> 
>     PC5-140:/home/rmgzshd # whereis libpng12.so.0
>     libpng12.so: /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/local/lib/libpng12.so 
> 
> but presuming that it is not the 64bit version mentioned I went looking
> for a 64 bit version but could not find it through google.
> 
> However reading the Installation manual I noted that libpng is mention
> in the context of a source build. I therefore downloaded "libpng-1.2.18"
> (v-1.2.8 or later is specified in the manual) and succesfully compiled
> this. This did not however help with my problem.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks
> Stephen Henderson
>  
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