[R] CentOS 8: installing R

[Marc Schwartz]

Hi Roger,

I can't speak to the details here, albeit, there was a thread back in 
April on R-Devel (also not the right list for this topic), where one of 
the Fedora maintainers provided some insights for CentOS 7.x, where 
there were missing/incompatible tool chain issues.

I would recommend re-posting this to r-sig-fedora, which is focused upon 
R on Red Hat and Fedora based Linux distributions, including CentOS:

   https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora

The Fedora/EPEL R maintainers do monitor and respond on that list, and 
can likely provide you with more informed replies.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz

Roger Bos wrote on 5/24/21 3:41 PM:
> Dear all,
> 
> I seem to be having an impossible time install R on my centos 8 virtual
> machine (I know centos 8 is no longer maintained, but it is a work server
> so I have no choice in the matter.).  I installed EPEL and enabled
> PowerTools, but I cannot install R due to conflicts in the requirements for
> openblas-devel.  Could some help me get past this issue?  Thanks in
> advance, Roger
> 
> [RCOAdmin using usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo dnf install R
> CentOS-8 - PowerTools
>                                                            14 kB/s | 4.3 kB
>      00:00
> Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64
>                                                             30 kB/s |  15 kB
>      00:00
> Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64
>                                                             52 kB/s |  15 kB
>      00:00
> Error:
>   Problem: package R-devel-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires R-core-devel =
> 4.0.5-1.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
>    - package R-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires R-devel = 4.0.5-1.el8, but none
> of the providers can be installed
>    - package R-core-devel-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires openblas-devel, but
> none of the providers can be installed
>    - conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides openblas(x86-32) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
> openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.i686
>    - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-32) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
> openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.i686
>    - nothing provides openblas(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
> openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64
>    - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
> openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64
> (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to
> use not only best candidate packages)
> [RCOAdmin using usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo dnf install openblass-devel
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:31 ago on Mon 24 May 2021 09:34:56 PM
> CEST.
> No match for argument: openblass-devel
> Error: Unable to find a match: openblass-devel
> [RCOAdmin using usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo dnf install openblas-devel
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:43 ago on Mon 24 May 2021 09:34:56 PM
> CEST.
> Error:
>   Problem: cannot install the best candidate for the job
>    - nothing provides openblas(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
> openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64
>    - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
> openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64
> (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to
> use not only best candidate packages)
> [RCOAdmin using usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo dnf install openblas-devel --nobest
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:52 ago on Mon 24 May 2021 09:34:56 PM
> CEST.
> Error:
>   Problem: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides openblas(x86-32) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
> openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.i686
>    - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-32) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
> openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.i686
>    - nothing provides openblas(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
> openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64
>    - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
> openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64
> (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
> [RCOAdmin using usd1sapp101 ~]$
> 
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