[R] Linux Installation Version

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Patrick
Gedeon<patrick.gedeon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to download the correct R program RMP for my linux
> distribution, but I am not sure which one I need.
>
> The results of a "cat /proc/version" is:
>
> Linux version 2.6.23-9.ydl6.1 (root at build2.terraplex.com) (gcc version 4.1.1
> 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52.ydl.1)) #1 SMP Sat Jan 26 20:16:15 EST 2008
>
>
> The results of a "uname -a" is:
>
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.23-9.ydl6.1 #1 SMP Sat Jan 26 20:16:15 EST
> 2008 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux
>
> I see that I need one of the redhat distributions, but after that I am lost.
> I am running Yellowdog Linux 6.0 on a PS3.
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks very much

For Yellowdog/PPC I would consider building from source myself.

That said I'm a Gentoo guy (x86, AMD64 and PPC) so pretty much
everything is from source.

Look to Yellowdog's package manage and go from there.

Cheers,
Mark