Getting R to work with Fedora 26
On Wed, 2017-08-02 at 15:30 -0400, Tom Callaway wrote:
On 08/02/2017 03:09 PM, Jeff Trefftzs wrote:
I just installed Fedora 26 on my laptop, and R now fails to load. The error message is missing libgfortran.so.3. Does anyone have a fix for this? FC 26 comes with R-3.4.1 as an RPM, but it throws the error, as does trying to compile R-3.4.1 from source.
Looking at my Fedora 26 system: [spot at localhost ~]$ rpm -q R-core R-core-3.4.1-1.fc26.x86_64 [spot at localhost ~]$ rpm -q R-core --requires |grep libgfortran libgfortran.so.4()(64bit) libgfortran.so.4(GFORTRAN_7)(64bit) I'm not sure how you ended up with an R package that depends on libgfortran.so.3, unless you have one for an older Fedora. In Fedora 26, libgfortran.so.4 is provided by libgfortran.
Thanks for the tip. I think I just had the pre-update installation of R-3.4.1 left over from FC 25. Uninstalling it and reinstalling the FC 26 version seems to have fixed things.
~tom
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