Installation on SuSE Linux [was Re: Copyrights for R contrib

Ted Harding
Mon, 02 Feb 1998 15:38:31 -0000

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.

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E-Mail: Ted Harding <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
Date: 02-Feb-98                                       Time: 15:38:31
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