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Problems installing R 2.1.1. from rpm (R-base-2.2.0-1.i586.rpm) on SuSE 10

8 messages · Peter Dalgaard, Rainer M Krug, Detlef Steuer

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Hi

I have problems installing R 2.1.1. from rpm (R-base-2.2.0-1.i586.rpm) 
on SuSE 10. It installs fine, all dependances are OK (at least Yast does 
not complain) but when I try to run R, it gives the following error message:

symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libblas.so.3: undefined symbol: 
_gfortran_filename

and R quits.

blas version: 3.0-926

Any help appreciated,

Rainer
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Rainer M Krug <rkrug at sun.ac.za> writes:
I suspect you're missing

turmalin:~/>rpm -qf `which gfortran`
gcc-fortran-4.0.2_20050901-3

  
    
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Nope - If I enter

 > rpm -qf `which gfortran`

I get

gcc-fortran-4.0.2_20050901-3

Rainer
Peter Dalgaard wrote:

  
    
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:12:40 +0200
Rainer M Krug <rkrug at sun.ac.za> wrote:

            
I do not understand what you are trying to do:
rpm -i R-base-2.2.0-1.i586.rpm
then you install R-2.2.0 not R-2.1.1

So what do you mean with "problems installing R-2.1.1" ?
Did you have old versions of R/blas/etc installed?

Anyway: Personally I never encountered such an error.

Detlef
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Rainer M Krug <rkrug at sun.ac.za> writes:
Hmm, where did the blas come in? I don't seem to have it on the SuSE
10 machine that I have access to (but it is running R-base-2.2.0-0).

  
    
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On 20 Dec 2005 11:11:18 +0100
Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:

            
I compiled it in in 2.2.0-1 . libblas is provided in the standard online-repository for opensuse, 
so it doesnÂ´t hurt. (at least not more than gfortran i.e.)

Detlef
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I used the SuSE 10 CDs as installation sources and added afterwards 
OpenSuse sources and extra CDs for Suse 10 and OpenSuse.

By the way, I decided to compile it from source and it worked without 
problems - no errors.

I guess that one of the versions used in the compilation for the rpms is 
not compatible with a newer version.

Thanks for your help,

Rainer
Peter Dalgaard wrote:

  
    
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:35:39 +0200
Rainer M Krug <rkrug at sun.ac.za> wrote:

            
May be there is a difference between SuSE and OpenSuSE nowadays?!
I exclusively use OpenSuSE now and was under the impression those were
equivalent.
Nice to hear.
Happy R`ing
Detlef