[R] CentOS 8: installing R

[Roger Bos]

Dear all,

I seem to be having an impossible time install R on my centos 8 virtual
machine (I know centos 8 is no longer maintained, but it is a work server
so I have no choice in the matter.).  I installed EPEL and enabled
PowerTools, but I cannot install R due to conflicts in the requirements for
openblas-devel.  Could some help me get past this issue?  Thanks in
advance, Roger

[RCOAdmin using usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo dnf install R
CentOS-8 - PowerTools
                                                          14 kB/s | 4.3 kB
    00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64
                                                           30 kB/s |  15 kB
    00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64
                                                           52 kB/s |  15 kB
    00:00
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)
[RCOAdmin using usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo dnf install openblass-devel
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:31 ago on Mon 24 May 2021 09:34:56 PM
CEST.
No match for argument: openblass-devel
Error: Unable to find a match: openblass-devel
[RCOAdmin using usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo dnf install openblas-devel
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:43 ago on Mon 24 May 2021 09:34:56 PM
CEST.
Error:
 Problem: cannot install the best candidate for the job
  - 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)
[RCOAdmin using usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo dnf install openblas-devel --nobest
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:52 ago on Mon 24 May 2021 09:34:56 PM
CEST.
Error:
 Problem: 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)
[RCOAdmin using usd1sapp101 ~]$

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