[R] CentOS 8: installing R

[Robert Knight]

Openblas-threads is in the appstream repository rather than power tools.

https://centos.pkgs.org/8/centos-appstream-x86_64/openblas-threads-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64.rpm.html

On Mon, May 24, 2021, 2:56 PM Marc Schwartz via R-help <r-help using r-project.org>
wrote:

> Hi Roger,
>
> I can't speak to the details here, albeit, there was a thread back in
> April on R-Devel (also not the right list for this topic), where one of
> the Fedora maintainers provided some insights for CentOS 7.x, where
> there were missing/incompatible tool chain issues.
>
> I would recommend re-posting this to r-sig-fedora, which is focused upon
> R on Red Hat and Fedora based Linux distributions, including CentOS:
>
>    https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora
>
> The Fedora/EPEL R maintainers do monitor and respond on that list, and
> can likely provide you with more informed replies.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
> Roger Bos wrote on 5/24/21 3:41 PM:
> > 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 machine (I know centos 8 is no longer maintained, but it is a work server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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