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suse 9.2 question

5 messages · WAYNE KING, Uwe Ligges, Brian Ripley +1 more

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Hi all, I checked the archive and didn't see an 
anser to this. I updated to Suse 9.2 with kde 3.3 
and the installed version of R (from the suse 9.1) 
rpms came up with the following failed 
dependencies (after querying the rpm) 
 
error: Failed dependencies: 
        libg2c.so.0 is needed by 
R-base-patched1.9.0-1 
        libreadline.so.4 is needed by 
R-base-patched1.9.0-1 
 
My question is: 
1.) can I just compile from the tar ball, or will 
the same missing lib files be a problem. In other 
words, is it just a rpm problem. 
2.) If compiling from the source will not help, 
can I add these files somehow, or will suse 9.2 
rpms be kindly added soon by some very nice 
person? 
 
thank you, 
wayne
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WAYNE KING wrote:

            
Yes.
No.

 > In other words, is it just a rpm problem.

Yes, in a way.

Uwe Ligges
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Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
Well, yes, they will. Maybe not a compile problem, but otherwise. Not
sure about libg2c, but without libreadline you definitely won't have
command recall.
I'd be surprised if the files are not on the SuSE CD somewhere. A bit
strange that they didn't get updated along with the rest of the system
though.
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On 1 Nov 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

            
But we are on libreadline.so.5 nowadays, so I suspect a very recent system 
like SuSE 9.2 has that and not libreadline.so.4.

OTOH, the absence of libg2c.so.0 suggests that g77 and its support files 
are not installed, and that will cause compilation problems.
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Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
Seems so since Wayne said (offline) that a compile from scratch worked
fine. Most likely there's a readline4-compat (or so) RPM for code that
has been linked with libreadline.so.4.
Hmm... I wonder what it did get linked to. Wayne? 

ldd `R RHOME`/lib/*

should tell you.