[R-sig-Fedora] Installing R on CentOS 8

[Roger Bos]

FYI: I used wget to download the newer version of openblas and
openblas-threads.  I was then able to install them and then install R.  Not
sure why the repo wasn't giving me the latest version, but I am good now.

On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 9:05 PM Roger Bos <roger.bos using gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to install R on my CentOS 8 server at work and getting an
> error message about openblas.  It seems I need openblas-0.3.3-5.el.x86_64.
> I have openblas-0.3.3-2.el8.x86_64.  I have added the EPEL repo and enabled
> PowerTools.  I would like to upgrade my openblas from 0..3.3-2 to 0.3.3-5,
> but I don't know how.  Or I could install a lower version of R that works
> with 0.3.3-2, but I don't know   Could someone please help me get past this
> error?
>
> Thanks in advance, Roger.
>
> [RCOAdmin using usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo yum install R
> [sudo] password for RCOAdmin:
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:07:14 ago on Tue 25 May 2021 02:51:46 AM
> CEST.
> Error:
>  Problem: package R-devel-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires R-core-devel =
> 4.0.5-1.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
>   - package R-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires R-devel = 4.0.5-1.el8, but none
> of the providers can be installed
>   - package R-core-devel-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires openblas-devel, but
> none of the providers can be installed
>   - conflicting requests
>   - nothing provides openblas(x86-32) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
> openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.i686
>   - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-32) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
> openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.i686
>   - nothing provides openblas(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
> openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64
>   - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
> openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64
> (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest'
> to use not only best candidate packages)
>
> P.S. I tried --skip-broken and --nobest.  It just skips the packages, so I
> still don't get R installed, so skipping is not an option.
>
>

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