[R-sig-Fedora] Installing R 3.4.0 on Red Hat 6

[Larry Martell]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hmmm. When I look at the contents of epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm, I
> see:
>
> /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
> /etc/rpm/macros.ghc-srpm
> /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo
> /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
> /usr/share/doc/epel-release-6
> /usr/share/doc/epel-release-6/GPL
>
> Do you have those .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ ?

This is the contents of that dir:

docker.repo
jenkins.repo
mysql-community.repo
mysql-community-source.repo
redhat.repo
remi.repo
rhel-source.repo
rhscl-python27-epel-6-x86_64.repo
scl.repo


> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On 07/21/2017 11:18 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
>> >> I am trying to install R 3.4.0 on RHEL6. If I look here is it there:
>> >>
>> >> http://mirror.sjc02.svwh.net/fedora-epel/6/x86_64/
>> >>
>> >> I did this:
>> >>
>> >> sudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
>> >> sudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-6-server-extras-rpms
>> >> wget
>> >> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
>> >> rpm epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
>> >
>> > Try this instead:
>> >
>> > rpm -Uvh epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
>>
>> That gave me:
>>
>> package epel-release-6-8.noarch is already installed
>>
>> > You also may want to install from epel-testing, 3.4.1 is in there.
>> >
>> > sudo yum --enablerepo=epel-testing install R
>>
>> That gave me:
>>
>> Error getting repository data for epel-testing, repository not found
>
>