Douglas Bates
1998-Feb-02 14:42 UTC
Installation on SuSE Linux [was Re: Copyrights for R contributed libraries]
Christian Hoffmann <hoffmann@wsl.ch> writes:> I just installed the SuSE distribution of Linux (from Fuerth, Germany). I > would be very interested in learning of a SuSE compatible form of R. > Installing Linux was expressly made to be able to use R :-) > > SuSE (suse@suse.de, http://www.suse.de) is a distribution which is quickly > gaining users for Linux because of its well thought out smooth tools and > handbooks, both in English and in German.I'm sorry but I don't know anything about installing R on SuSE. If SuSE accepts .rpm packages you could try to install those from the CRAN archive. It may require a bit of work to get the libraries consistent with what the .rpm packages require. The big distinction is whether your system is based on libc5 or libc6 (also called glibc2 or GNU libc 2.0). A RedHat-5.0 binary requires libc6. It is usually fairly easy to install from the original sources. You could do that instead of trying to find a binary package. -- Douglas Bates bates@stat.wisc.edu Statistics Department 608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Ted Harding
1998-Feb-02 15:38 UTC
Installation on SuSE Linux [was Re: Copyrights for R contrib
On 02-Feb-98 Douglas Bates wrote:> Christian Hoffmann <hoffmann@wsl.ch> writes: > >> I just installed the SuSE distribution of Linux (from Fuerth, Germany). I >> would be very interested in learning of a SuSE compatible form of R. >> Installing Linux was expressly made to be able to use R :-) > > I'm sorry but I don't know anything about installing R on SuSE. If > SuSE accepts .rpm packages you could try to install those from the > CRAN archive. It may require a bit of work to get the libraries > consistent with what the .rpm packages require. The big distinction > is whether your system is based on libc5 or libc6 (also called glibc2 > or GNU libc 2.0). A RedHat-5.0 binary requires libc6.S.u.S.E. Linux uses RPM as its basic installation engine. As to libc5/6, I quote from the documentation in the S.u.S.E.-5.1 distribution: This is the beta release of the Linux C library 5.4.33. Due to the new, improved locale, the Linux C library 5.4.33 is binary compatible with libc 5.3.12 but not vice versa. The binaries compiled/linked with libc.so.5.4.33 may not run with libc.so.5.3.12. You may need to regenerate locale files for the new locale in libc 5.4.33 if you use locales other tha C/POSIX which are the defaults. I'm not sure where this leaves installation of R (which I have not tried on S.u.S.E.-5.1 yet, since I only upgraded yesterday), but I hope this info is useful. Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Ted Harding <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 02-Feb-98 Time: 15:38:31 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._