Installing R on CentOS 8

Thanks for your reply.  As the paste below shows, when I try to enable
"powertools", I get an error message of "no matching repo".  Mine seems to
be proper case "PowerTools".  That command doesn't return anything, so I
assume it worked, but "dnf update" still returns the same error.  Any
further suggestion greatly appreciated!

[bosr at rth.ad.rothschild.com@usd1sapp101 ~]$ dnf config-manager
--set-enabled powertools
Error: This command has to be run under the root user.
[bosr at rth.ad.rothschild.com@usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo dnf config-manager
--set-enabled powertools
Error: No matching repo to modify: powertools.
[bosr at rth.ad.rothschild.com@usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo dnf config-manager
--set-enabled PowerTools
[bosr at rth.ad.rothschild.com@usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo dnf update
CentOS-8 - AppStream
             271 MB/s | 5.4 MB     00:00
CentOS-8 - Base
            248 MB/s | 2.2 MB     00:00
CentOS-8 - PowerTools
            5.1 MB/s | 2.0 MB     00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64
             594 kB/s | 610 kB     00:01
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64
             6.4 MB/s | 9.4 MB     00:01
Error:
 Problem: package R-devel-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires R-core-devel =
4.0.5-1.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package R-core-devel-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires openblas-devel, but
none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package R-devel-1-1.x86_64
  - nothing provides openblas(x86-32) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.i686
  - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-32) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.i686
  - nothing provides openblas(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64
  - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to
use not only best candidate packages)
[bosr at rth.ad.rothschild.com@usd1sapp101 ~]$

On Tue, 25 May 2021 at 03:06, Roger Bos <roger.bos at gmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to install R on my CentOS 8 server at work and getting an
error message about openblas.  It seems I need

openblas-0.3.3-5.el.x86_64.

I have openblas-0.3.3-2.el8.x86_64.  I have added the EPEL repo and

enabled

PowerTools.  I would like to upgrade my openblas from 0..3.3-2 to

0.3.3-5,

but I don't know how.  Or I could install a lower version of R that works
with 0.3.3-2, but I don't know   Could someone please help me get past

this

error?

Thanks in advance, Roger.

[RCOAdmin at usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo yum install R
[sudo] password for RCOAdmin:
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Error:
 Problem: package R-devel-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires R-core-devel =
4.0.5-1.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package R-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires R-devel = 4.0.5-1.el8, but none
of the providers can be installed
  - package R-core-devel-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires openblas-devel, but
none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - nothing provides openblas(x86-32) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.i686
  - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-32) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.i686
  - nothing provides openblas(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64
  - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest'

to

use not only best candidate packages)

openblas-devel, which is in the powertools repo, is not found above,
so it seems you don't actually have powertools enabled. Run:

$ dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools

and try again, please.

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