[R] install R under suse: packages dependency

[Larry Howe]

On Wednesday 03 May 2006 20:28, zhihua li wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm trying to install R 2.3.0 under Suse 10.0.   As I'm using SSH to login
> into the SUSE server, I can't use YAST2, so I have to use rpm -i in the
> shell.  The system tells me that I need some other packages such as
> xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi, blas, libgfortran.so.0().  Is there some website
> where I can download and install these packages?   Thanks a lot!
>
> Zhihua Li

You CAN use YAST in SSH. Just type yast at the command line. You will get yast 
in ncurses (text) mode. I recently configured an entire server this way. Do 
you have root access?

You have to have the installation sources configured correctly. Are your 
installation sources configured? 

Larry Howe