[R] FW: Suse RPM installation problem

[Peter Dalgaard]

Stephen Henderson wrote:
> Hello 
>
> I am trying to install the R RPM for Suse 10.0 on an x86_64 PC. However
> I am failing a dependency for  "libpng12.so.0" straight away
>
>
>
>     PC5-140:/home/rmgzshd # rpm -i R-base-2.5.0-2.1.x86_64.rpm
>     error: Failed dependencies:
>     libpng12.so.0(PNG12_0)(64bit) is needed by R-base-2.5.0-2.1.x86_64
>
> I do seem to have this file
>
>     PC5-140:/home/rmgzshd # whereis libpng12.so.0
>     libpng12.so: /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/local/lib/libpng12.so 
>
> but presuming that it is not the 64bit version mentioned I went looking
> for a 64 bit version but could not find it through google.
>
> However reading the Installation manual I noted that libpng is mention
> in the context of a source build. I therefore downloaded "libpng-1.2.18"
> (v-1.2.8 or later is specified in the manual) and succesfully compiled
> this. This did not however help with my problem.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>   
I have

viggo:~/>rpm -qf /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0
libpng-32bit-1.2.12-25
viggo:~/>rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0
libpng-1.2.12-25
viggo:~/>rpm -q R-base
R-base-2.5.0-2.1


> Thanks
> Stephen Henderson
>  
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