[R] Problem Installing R to SuSE 10 via RPM

[Marc Schwartz]

Two things:

1. Looking at the sizes of the RPMs at the URL provided, the 'R-base-devel' RPM is only 84k. So as with other Linux distros, that is likely to contain R header files and other such things to enable compilation of CRAN packages during their installation using the source tarballs. The 'R-base' RPM is 33Mb, so that is your primary install for R. You will want both.

2. I don't know about the configuration of the RPMs on SUSE, but presume that as with RH/Fedora, the RPMs can be created in such a fashion that they are not relocatable. That means that they are configured to be only installed 'system-wide', not to a specific user's directory tree. You may have issues trying to install them without root access on your computer, thus may get other permission related errors when you get the correct RPM. Whether they are or are not relocatable would be a question for the SUSE maintainer for the R package. If they are, there are 'rpm' command line arguments that are relevant. So use 'man rpm' for more details. If the RPMs are not relocatable, you will be left with the option of building R from source in order to install R locally and will want to read the R Installation and Administration manual for details.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

On Jan 13, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Matthew Pettis wrote:

> Thanks, will do!  I thought devel included base, but evidently, that's not
> the case...
> 
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Gavin Blackburn <
> gavin.blackburn at strath.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> I think it's saying you need to install R-base before R-base-devel.
>> 
>> You'll need to add a cran repository as SUSE might not have the most
>> up-to-date version of R.
>> 
>> This is the code for Ubuntu I assume it's the same, just change the distro
>> and keyserver:
>> 
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo add-apt-repository 'deb
>> http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/bin/linux/ubuntu oneiric/'
>> gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E084DAB9
>> gpg -a --export E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add -
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> You may also want to get Sun java, again, change distro and keyserver:
>> 
>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java
>> sudo apt-key adv --recv-key --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.comB725097B3ACC3965
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin
>> 
>> Then run:
>> 
>> 
>> sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
>> sudo R CMD javareconf
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Gavin.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
>> On Behalf Of Matthew Pettis
>> Sent: 13 January 2012 16:43
>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: [R] Problem Installing R to SuSE 10 via RPM
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm trying to install R from an rpm locally to my account (the reason I'm
>> not doing it through yast/yast2/zypper is that the sys admin isn't yet
>> willing to install it, and doesn't want to support it, but will help me
>> support it if I install it locally -- in short, policy problems rather than
>> technical).  Below is the SuSE version, Kernel version, and rpm install
>> error I'm getting, as well as the error...
>> 
>> Can anyone help me with the error?  I'm trying to install R-base 2.14.1,
>> but it is telling me that I need R-base version 2.14.1 as a dependency.  Am
>> I using the wrong rpm for an installation starting from scratch?
>> 
>> I got the rpm from:
>> 
>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/base/SLE_10/x86_64/
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> pettis at swat:~/bin> cat /etc/*-release
>> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64)
>> VERSION = 10
>> PATCHLEVEL = 2
>> 
>> pettis at swat:~/bin> uname -a
>> Linux swat 2.6.16.60-0.34-smp #1 SMP Fri Jan 16 14:59:01 UTC 2009 x86_64
>> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> 
>> pettis at swat:~/bin> rpm -ivh R-base-devel-2.14.1-30.1.x86_64.rpm
>> warning: R-base-devel-2.14.1-30.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature:
>> NOKEY, key ID 793371fe
>> error: Failed dependencies:
>>       R-base = 2.14.1 is needed by R-base-devel-2.14.1-30.1.x86_64