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cannot install R-2.6.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.9 PowerPC G5

6 messages · Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal, shelley

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Hello:

I tried to install the latest R2.6.1 on my Mac OS X machines. I have  
no problems installing it on my Mac OS X Tigr machine. But when I  
tried to install it on other Mac OS X 10.4.9 PowerPCs, I could not  
have the GNU Fortran and/or Tcl/Tk libraries installed. I always got  
the error message : There were errors installing the software, please  
try installing again.

Does somebody have any idea what was going wrong? I had X11 installed  
on the machines, do I need to install other softwares before  
installing R?

Thanks!
-Shelley
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Hi Shelley:

Look at:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-December/047601.html

-Roy M.
On Dec 4, 2007, at 9:42 AM, shelley wrote:

            
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Supervisory Operations Research Analyst
NOAA/NMFS
Environmental Research Division	
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
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Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097

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Sorry, I copied the wrong link.   Look at:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-December/047605.html

-Roy M.
On Dec 4, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Roy Mendelssohn wrote:

            
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"The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S.  
Government or NOAA."
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Roy Mendelssohn
Supervisory Operations Research Analyst
NOAA/NMFS
Environmental Research Division	
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
1352 Lighthouse Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097

e-mail: Roy.Mendelssohn at noaa.gov (Note new e-mail address)
voice: (831)-648-9029
fax: (831)-648-8440
www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/

"Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."
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Hi Roy:

Thank you for your quick response! I checked the softlink and I did  
see: /usr/local/ -> /private/var/automount/usr/local

 From the post I read: "I'm not quite sure what to do with this".  
What does it mean? It means there is no way to install the Tcl/Tk  
libraries on my powerPCs? I want to use it.

-Shelley
On Dec 4, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Roy Mendelssohn wrote:

            
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Look to see if you have a link in /usr/local that links /usr/local/ib  
to  "/usr/local/lib 1".  it is that which is causing the problems.   
In the link below, Simon gives 2 commands that remove the link and  
renames the library location.  Then the install works.

-Roy
On Dec 4, 2007, at 10:21 AM, shelley wrote:

            
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"The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S.  
Government or NOAA."
**********************
Roy Mendelssohn
Supervisory Operations Research Analyst
NOAA/NMFS
Environmental Research Division	
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
1352 Lighthouse Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097

e-mail: Roy.Mendelssohn at noaa.gov (Note new e-mail address)
voice: (831)-648-9029
fax: (831)-648-8440
www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/

"Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."
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Hi Roy:

I don't know where Simon found the "/usr/local/lib 1". I checked  
everywhere but could not find it. There is a softlink links "/usr/ 
bin/ to "/private/var/automount/usr/local", but no softlink links "/ 
usr/bin/local" to other place.

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lrwxr-xr-x     1 root  wheel     27 Dec  3 12:18 local -> /automount/ 
static/usr/local
drwxr-xr-x    2 swlocal  lab      68 Jan 16  2004 lib
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-Shelley
On Dec 4, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Roy Mendelssohn wrote: