[R] [?] RPM install problems (Linux)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Martyn Plummer <plummer at iarc.fr> writes:

> On 22-Sep-00 Francisco Cribari wrote:
> > 
> > When I try to install the R RPM under Mandrake Linux 7.1 (intel),
>   ...
> 
> The Red Hat RPMS are compiled for Red Hat Linux.  Although Mandrake
> started off as Red Hat + KDE, the two distributions are now diverging,
> and there is no guarantee of binary compatibility. Ideally, there
> should be a separate binary RPM package for Mandrake.

...although the present issue would seem to cure itself by RedHat-7.0
including the following

  readline-4.1-5.i386.rpm              156 Kb    Wed Aug 30 22:16:00 2000 
  readline-devel-4.1-5.i386.rpm        101 Kb    Wed Aug 30 22:16:00 2000 
  readline2.2.1-2.2.1-2.i386.rpm        86 Kb    Wed Aug 30 22:16:00 2000 
 
I.e. you get compatibility with binaries compiled with readline2.2
(libreadline.so.3 -- don't ask!) but any new compiles get
libreadline.so.4. 

(and the compilers have been replaced with the gcc 2.96 suite, so
hopefully the dynload problems will be dead and gone)

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