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installing R under RH Linux 5.2

4 messages · Francisco Cribari, Peter Dalgaard, Alvaro A. Novo +1 more

Francisco Cribari
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I am trying to install R under Red Hat Linux 5.2, but the
following error happens:

[root at edgeworth cribari]# rpm -ivh R-base-0.63.2-1.i386.rpm failed
dependencies:         libncurses.so.3.0 is needed by R-base-0.63.2-1

I must be missing something very simple. I would appreciate
any guidance. Thanks. FC.


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Peter Dalgaard
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Francisco Cribari <cribari at de.ufpe.br> writes:
Hmm. Dunno about 5.2, but 5.1 appears to have
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.3.0 in ncurses3-1.9.9e-5.i386.rpm
which is probably what you need to install. I have that one *and*
ncurses-4.2-6.i386.rpm and ncurses-devel-4.2-6.i386.rpm on this machine. 

(I seem to recall some ugly story about people fighting over the
ncurses development, which led to some numbering weirdness and may
have some relation to this)

Actually, it's a bit strange, because R's built on my machine link
with libncurses.so.4, but perhaps Martyn is catering for older
systems?
Alvaro A. Novo
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On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Francisco Cribari wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
You need to install the library ncurses3, I believe. RH5.1 included an RPM
w/ it.

Alvaro

            

      
      
      
    

        
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On 31-Jan-99 Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
My RedHat 5.2 system has the following curses packages installed:
ncurses3-1.9.9e-7
ncurses-4.2-10
ncurses-devel-4.2-10

ncurses version 4 is the old BSD-style curses package, which is being phased out
in favor of the new curses (version 3-1.9), which uses a different numbering
scheme. It's a pretty standard part of the distribution. I didn't know you
could get away with not installing it.
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