[R] Problem with the Linux R 2.8.0 rpm for 64 bit REL 4

[Peter Tait]

Hi,

I am trying to update my version of R on Centos 4.

  $uname -a

  Linux 2.6.9-78.0.5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Oct 8 07:06:30 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 
x86_64 GNU/Linux

I tried to update the current version of R (2.6.2) which was installed 
locally as an rpm
  $R --version
  R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
  Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
  ISBN 3-900051-07-0

I used yum to try to do the update with the following error

$su -c "yum localupdate /data/R-2.8.0-1.rh4.x86_64.rpm"
  Error: Missing Dependency: xdg-utils is needed by package R

I have installed the xdg-utils manually from
http://portland.freedesktop.org/download/xdg-utils-1.0.2.tgz

$cd /data/xdg-utils-1.0.2 --> this is a directory
$./configure --prefix=/usr
$su -c " make install"
$cd /usr/bin
$ ls -al | grep xdg --> shows the xdg utilities
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root      14806 Nov 18 10:43 xdg-desktop-icon
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root      39267 Nov 18 10:43 xdg-desktop-menu
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root      16177 Nov 18 10:43 xdg-email
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root      24129 Nov 18 10:43 xdg-icon-resource
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root      28015 Nov 18 10:43 xdg-mime
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root      10131 Nov 18 10:43 xdg-open
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root      19303 Nov 18 10:43 xdg-screensaver

So the xdg-utils are installed but yum or the R rpm are not recognizing 
them? How do I solve this problem?

Thanks
Peter