[R] Problems installing R 2.1.1. from rpm (R-base-2.2.0-1.i586.rpm) on SuSE 10

[Detlef Steuer]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:35:39 +0200
Rainer M Krug <rkrug at sun.ac.za> wrote:

> I used the SuSE 10 CDs as installation sources and added afterwards 
> OpenSuse sources and extra CDs for Suse 10 and OpenSuse.

May be there is a difference between SuSE and OpenSuSE nowadays?!
I exclusively use OpenSuSE now and was under the impression those were
equivalent.

> 
> By the way, I decided to compile it from source and it worked without 
> problems - no errors.

Nice to hear.

> 
> I guess that one of the versions used in the compilation for the rpms is 
> not compatible with a newer version.



Happy R`ing
Detlef

> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Rainer
> 
> 
> 
> Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> > Rainer M Krug <rkrug at sun.ac.za> writes:
> > 
> >> Nope - If I enter
> >>
> >>  > rpm -qf `which gfortran`
> >>
> >> I get
> >>
> >> gcc-fortran-4.0.2_20050901-3
> >>
> >> Rainer
> > 
> > 
> > Hmm, where did the blas come in? I don't seem to have it on the SuSE
> > 10 machine that I have access to (but it is running R-base-2.2.0-0).
> > 
> >  
> >> Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> >>> Rainer M Krug <rkrug at sun.ac.za> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi
> >>>>
> >>>> I have problems installing R 2.1.1. from rpm
> >>>> (R-base-2.2.0-1.i586.rpm) on SuSE 10. It installs fine, all
> >>>> dependances are OK (at least Yast does not complain) but when I try
> >>>> to run R, it gives the following error message:
> >>>>
> >>>> symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libblas.so.3: undefined symbol:
> >>>> _gfortran_filename
> >>>>
> >>>> and R quits.
> >>>>
> >>>> blas version: 3.0-926
> >>>>
> >>>> Any help appreciated,
> >>>>
> >>>> Rainer
> >>> I suspect you're missing
> >>> turmalin:~/>rpm -qf `which gfortran`
> >>> gcc-fortran-4.0.2_20050901-3
> > 
> 
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> 
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