R-installation, linux red hat 7.1
Jane Fridlyand <janef at stat.berkeley.edu> writes:
Hi, I have 1.3.0 version on my linux redhat. I wanted to upgrade to 1.4.1 using compiled rpm (R-base-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm and R-recommended-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm ) but made a mistake and used "-i" option to rpm command instead of upgrade U. It was complaining about already having files with that name (from the previous version) in /usr/bin/R and /usr/lib/R so i went ahead and removed those directories. Then I made yet another very stupid mistake and this time used -U option without much thinking. So, basically right now it thinks that I have R installed whereas i don't and /usr/bin/R directories are empty. basically, i am unable to install R at this point and I am really at loss why it is thinking that the package is installed. Any suggestion? I need to remove references to R but I am really at loss to where they are sitting ...
At that stage, I'd try rpm -i --force R-*-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm [/usr/bin/R is not a directory, though. It's a shell script.] You might also want to rpm -q to see if the system thinks you have two versions of R installed, and if necessary rpm -e something.
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