Trond Rafoss
1998-Jan-26 12:56 UTC
R-beta: installing the R- rpm in RedHat 5.0 --trouble !!
Hello ! When I am trying to install the file " http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R/bin/i386-linux/RedHat-5.0/r-base-0.61.1-2.i386.rpm" on my RedHat 5.0 system I get the following message: libncurses.so.3.4 is needed by r-base-0.61.1-2 Where is it possible to get this (preferably as an rpm) Regards Trond Rafoss Norwegian Institute of Crop Research Plant Protection Centre Fellesbygget 1432 Aas NORWAY Email: trond.rafoss at planteforsk.no Project page: http://www.planteforsk.no/risikoanalyse/index.htm -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help 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-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Douglas Bates
1998-Jan-26 15:10 UTC
R-beta: installing the R- rpm in RedHat 5.0 --trouble !!
Trond Rafoss <trond.rafoss at planteforsk.no> writes:> When I am trying to install the file " > http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R/bin/i386-linux/RedHat-5.0/r-base-0.61.1-2.i3> 86.rpm" on my RedHat 5.0 system I get the following message: > libncurses.so.3.4 is needed by r-base-0.61.1-2 > > Where is it possible to get this (preferably as an rpm)I don't know if libncurses.so.3.4 is available for RedHat. It may be another case of version-skew in the numbering of libraries between RedHat 5.0 and Debian 2.0. The package you are trying to install was created by me on a Debian Linux system running the "unstable" version that will become Debian-2.0. Like RedHat 5.0 this version is based on libc6. After creating a Debian package from sources, one can run it through an automatic converter to create a RedHat RPM package. That is how the RPM file you are trying to install was created. Earlier we had problems with the numbering of the libreadline.so library. The version numbered 2.1 under Debian is numbered 3.0 under RedHat. RedHat 5.0 comes with a libncurses.so.3.0. That library is also available for Debian but the most recent version of the library is numbered 3.4. I don't know what the differences are. The ncurses3.4 package in Debian is described as Package: ncurses3.4 Priority: required Section: base Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh at micron.net> Source: ncurses Version: 1.9.9g-7 Depends: libc6 Description: Video terminal manipulation - shared libraries This package contains the shared libraries necessary to run programs compiled with the ncurses libraries. The copyright file for the package states This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the ncurses library and terminfo utilities. ncurses/terminfo was written by Pavel Curtis and Zeyd M. Ben-Halim <zmbenhal at netcom.com>. Ncurses is copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 by Zeyd M. Ben-Halim. Galen Hazelwood <galenh at micron.net> created this package, from sources found under ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/zm/zmbenhal/ncurses. It borrows heavily from the original debianization put together by Bruce Perens <Bruce at Pixar.com> and benifitted considerably from a lot of help from David Engel <david at elo.ods.com>. Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman at debian.org> arranged the beast into its present form, and put a lot of effort into making ncurses fit with Debian in the best way possible. His patches for packaging the ill-fated 4.1 release form the backbone of this version. The current maintainer is greatly in debt to his illustrious predecessors. Apparently the original sources are the file /ftp at ftp.netcom.com:/pub/zm/zmbenhal/ncurses: total 2868 drwxr-xr-x 2 3245 50 512 Feb 26 1997 . drwxr-xr-x 5 3245 1 512 Dec 16 01:11 .. ... -rw-r--r-- 1 3245 50 1081067 Feb 26 1997 ncurses-1.9.9g.tar.gz I think it is best for me to stop trying to provide RPM packages of R by converting Debian packages. We seem to be having too much trouble keeping library versions consistent. Others may be willing to contribute native RPM packages to CRAN. In the short term I could try to create a .rpm package from the ncurses3.4 Debian package and you could install that. I would not prefer that as a long term solution because I don't know enough about the libraries to take responsibility for others installing such packages. -- Douglas Bates bates at stat.wisc.edu Statistics Department 608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help 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-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._