[R-sig-Fedora] Installing R on RedHat EL 5
Christos Hatzis
christos.hatzis at nuverabio.com
Fri Nov 13 21:52:20 CET 2009
The installation seems to have gone through ok, but this is what I am
getting at the end:
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 from epel has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: libX11-devel is needed by package
R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel)
R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 from epel has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: pcre-devel is needed by package
R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel)
R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 from epel has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: tk-devel is needed by package
R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel)
R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 from epel has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: tcl-devel is needed by package
R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel)
Error: Missing Dependency: tcl-devel is needed by package
R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel)
Error: Missing Dependency: tk-devel is needed by package
R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel)
Error: Missing Dependency: pcre-devel is needed by package
R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel)
Error: Missing Dependency: libX11-devel is needed by package
R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel)
Do I need to install other tools before running
su -c 'yum install R'?
Thanks again.
-Christos
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 15:11 -0500, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Christos Hatzis wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am totally new to Linux and trying to install R and related
> > tools. I
> > downloaded the rpm files for el4/x86_64 from the CRAN repository and
> > tried to run rpm but it did not go through complaining about
> > dependencies.
> >
> > Do all the listed rpm files need to be installed? What is the order
> > in
> > which these need to be installed?
> >
> > I appreciate any help with this or any suggestions for alternate ways
> > for installing pre-compiled versions of R and the packages in RHL.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > -Christos Hatzis
>
> The easiest way is to use the EPEL, which is a yum repository for RHEL
> and CentOS.
>
> There is more information here:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>
> with the key steps here in the FAQ:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse
>
> If you are on 64 bit RHEL, you will need to replace the 'i386' in the
> first command's path with 'x86_64':
>
> su -c 'rpm -Uvh
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-3.noarch.
> rpm'
>
> Then replace 'foo' in the second command with 'R', which will install
> R and any other dependencies that you may require:
>
> su -c 'yum install R'
>
> Note that the latest version available appears to be 2.9.2 and I
> suspect that this is due to the imminent release of Fedora 12, which
> is presumably consuming Tom Callaway and others at the moment.
>
> HTH,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
>
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