[R] Problem Installing R to SuSE 10 via RPM

[peter dalgaard]

On Jan 13, 2012, at 17:43 , Matthew Pettis wrote:

> 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...

As others have said, installing from RPM outside the system folders could be a no-go. Another option is to install from source, this works fine if you have all the relevant packages installed (compilers, libraries, header files...). If you don't already have them get your sysadm to install them (say, one per day over a couple of weeks, until he sees the error of his ways...).

But really, the painless option for both of you is just to install it from the official SUSE sources with yast, keep it updated automagically, and keep all add-on packages in your own home directory. The sysadmin workload for R on SUSE (and most other Linuxen) should be essentially nil. 

> 
> 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
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