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

[Peter Tait]

Hi Marc + Gustavo,

thank you for the help.

Marc -
I tried to install the xdg-utils RPM from a different web site ( I can not 
find it anymore) and yum complained about a missing public key. I never 
could find the public key for that RPM package.

The command I have for updating the keys is
su -c 'rpm --import http://www.therepository.com/GPG-PUB-KEY.asc'

Does http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/x86_64/ provide the *.asc 
files?

Cheers
Peter


----Original Message Follows----
From: Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at comcast.net>
Reply-To: marc_schwartz at comcast.net
To: Gustavo Carvalho <gustavo.bio at gmail.com>
CC: Peter Tait <petertait at sympatico.ca>, r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Problem with the Linux R 2.8.0 rpm for 64 bit REL 4
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:00:26 -0600

I would not use 'force', as the consequences can be a corrupted RPM
database and other conflicts.

The xdg-utils RPM for RHEL 4 is available from here:

   http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/x86_64/

You might want to review the EPEL FAQ here:

   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ

You can uninstall the compiled version using "make uninstall" to avoid
conflicts with the RPM.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

on 11/18/2008 10:31 AM Gustavo Carvalho wrote:
 > xdg utils is probably not being recognized because you compiled it
 > from source. The R rpm is looking for the xdg utils package. I'm not
 > familiar with yum, but I think you can try to force the installation:
 >
 > rpm -ivh --force (or something like that) /data/R-2.8.0-1.rh4.x86_64.rpm
 >
 > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Peter Tait <petertait at sympatico.ca> 
wrote:
 >> 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
 >>