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@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@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Matthew Pettis
> Sent: 13 January 2012 16:43
> To: r-help@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@swat:~/bin> cat /etc/*-release
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64)
> VERSION = 10
> PATCHLEVEL = 2
>
> pettis@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@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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