[R] Sorry - Red Hat 9.0 RPM problem

[Andy Bunn]

Excuse the wrong subject header.

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Andy Bunn
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 4:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [R] Help with nlme--freq weights, logit model, and more


Hi, I'm making the painful but liberating step to full-time linux user.
The switch has been mostly OK. All the stuff I learned when I first sat
down at a unix box is slowly coming back. But I digress.

Today I went to CRAN to get the RH 9 RPM:

http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/9/i386/

And, alas I found none and got the RH 8 build instead.

Here's what happens when I try the RPM:

[root at facet r.stuff]# rpm -i R-1.7.0-1.i386.rpm
warning: R-1.7.0-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 97d3544e
error: Failed dependencies:
        libtcl.so.0 is needed by R-1.7.0-1
        libtk.so.0 is needed by R-1.7.0-1

But a newer version of tcl (and tk) was installed with the RH 9
installation. 

[root at facet misc.rpms]# rpm -qa | grep -i tcl
tcl-8.3.5-88

So, in a short and ill-advised moment of lunacy I forced it:

[root at facet r.stuff]# rpm -i --nodeps *.rpm


That went as poorly as one might expect.
 
I suppose that I could roll back the tcl version but that seems
counterproductive. Is there a way to force the rpm? Can somebody smarter
than me make a good RPM for RH 9?

I'm loathe to install from source.

Thanks and I hope this is isn't an embarrassing question.

-Andy

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