Installing R from source in Fedora -- "minimal package list"

The Requires on R-core-devel are not in any way intended to prep an
environment to build R (they are intended to provide the minimum
requirements for the R header files to work).

To do what you want, your best bet is to pull down the R.spec file:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/R/raw/rawhide/f/R.spec

Then, use the "builddep" plug-in from dnf to install the BuildRequires:
dnf builddep R.spec

~spot

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022, 8:26 AM Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
wrote:

As R Develeoper, I've tried to install R in a fedora podman
container, starting from plain fedora

dnf install R-core-devel
dnf install emacs-ess
dnf install subversion

cd /usr/local
mkdir -p .../R
cd       .../R
svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk R-devel
mkdir -p inst/R-devel
cd inst/R-devel/
../../R-devel/configure

and then it's telling me I will not have readline, so I stop

and do

dnf install libreadline-devel

but then X11 libraries/headers are missing etc.

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I had hoped that   the R-core-devel   would already provide me
with what I needed.

Is there a list of such things to easily add to my list to add
after starting to run podman in a "base fedora" ?

{I'd be glad to be CC'ed as I'm not subscribed to R-SIG-Fedora}

Thank you in advance,
Martin

--
Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich   and   R core team

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