[R-sig-Fedora] WARNING you cannot build info or html versions of the R manuals

[Tom Callaway]

On 01/19/2016 11:10 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>> https://spot.fedorapeople.org/fedora17-R-deps/
> 
> Thank you for going to all this work.
> 
> However (as usual) I'm still at a bit of a loss.  I *think* that just a
> few more words of instruction will get me to where I need to be.
> 
> I went to the site that you specify and there found a list of 14
> packages (rpm-s) one of which is a ".src.rpm" with the others end just
> in ".rpm" with no ".src" before it.
> 
> OK.  Now what do I do?

Download all of them, except for the src.rpm (and the texinfo-debuginfo
package).

Then, run:

sudo rpm -Uvh info-6.0-2.fc17.1.x86_64.rpm
perl-File-ShareDir-Install-0.10-3.fc17.noarch.rpm
perl-Module-Install-AuthorRequires-0.02-10.fc17.noarch.rpm
perl-Module-Install-AuthorTests-0.002-10.fc17.noarch.rpm
perl-Module-Install-ManifestSkip-0.24-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
perl-Module-Install-Repository-0.06-10.fc17.noarch.rpm
perl-Module-Manifest-Skip-0.23-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
perl-Module-Package-0.30-9.fc17.noarch.rpm
perl-Module-Package-Au-2-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
perl-Unicode-EastAsianWidth-1.33-6.fc17.noarch.rpm
texinfo-6.0-2.fc17.1.x86_64.rpm texinfo-tex-6.0-2.fc17.1.x86_64.rpm

rpm has two install modes:

 * -i installs new packages.
 * -U upgrades a package over an existing install

The reasons for these modes are historical trivia, practically, humans
always use -U, because -i chokes if a package is already present, which
is what you saw. -v tells rpm to be verbose, and -h tells it to do
pretty progress hashing.

hth,

~tom

PS. I totally meant "texinfo" when I referred to the src.rpm earlier.
Too much tex on the brain today.

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