[R-sig-Fedora] Updating R on RHL5

[Christos Hatzis]

Hi,

I haven't used my system in a while now and wanted to update R.
Running yum update R fails because of missing dependency texinfo-tex
I have installed the EPEL yum repo configurations but
yum install texinfo-tex does not find the package.
How can I install that missing package?

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
-Christos

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[root at localhost ~]# yum update R
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
There was an error communicating with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Error communicating with server. The message was:

Error Message:
        Please run rhn_register as root on this client
Error Class Code: 9
Error Class Info: Invalid System Credentials.
Explanation:
     An error has occurred while processing your request. If this
problem
     persists please enter a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com.
     If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include
     details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and
     details on how to reproduce this problem.

Skipping security plugin, no data
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running
yum-complete-transaction first to finish them.
The program yum-complete-transaction is found in the yum-utils package.
Skipping security plugin, no data
--> Running transaction check
---> Package R.x86_64 0:2.15.2-1.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libRmath-devel = 2.15.2-1.el5 for package: R
--> Processing Dependency: R-devel = 2.15.2-1.el5 for package: R
--> Running transaction check
---> Package R-devel.x86_64 0:2.15.2-1.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: R-core = 2.15.2-1.el5 for package: R-devel
--> Processing Dependency: texinfo-tex for package: R-devel
---> Package libRmath-devel.x86_64 0:2.15.2-1.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libRmath = 2.15.2-1.el5 for package:
libRmath-devel
--> Running transaction check
---> Package R-core.x86_64 0:2.15.2-1.el5 set to be updated
---> Package R-devel.x86_64 0:2.15.2-1.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: texinfo-tex for package: R-devel
---> Package libRmath.x86_64 0:2.15.2-1.el5 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
R-devel-2.15.2-1.el5.x86_64 from epel has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: texinfo-tex is needed by package
R-devel-2.15.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel)
Error: Missing Dependency: texinfo-tex is needed by package
R-devel-2.15.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
                        package-cleanup --dupes
                        rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package.
[root at localhost ~]#


-- 
Christos Hatzis, Ph.D.
Nuvera Biosciences
Saugus, MA 01801