R help - Mar 2003 - problem at installing Rade

Hi!

I try to install the R version of ade4 on a linux (suse7.3) box
with R 1.6.2 (from rpm)
and get 
/usr/local/bin/R INSTALL ade4_1.00.tar.gz
tar: /usr/local/lib/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found 
(required by /lib/librt.so.1)
ERROR: cannot extract package from 'ade4_1.00.tar.gz'

But I actually have glibc 2.2.4 
(at least this is what my suse's Yast conf. tool 
tells me, perhaps there is a more direct way of checking 
it?)

Having used the rpm for R, should I use the
rpm for ade4? 

Thanks 

Dr. Agustin Lobo
Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC)
Lluis Sole Sabaris s/n
08028 Barcelona SPAIN
tel 34 93409 5410
fax 34 93411 0012
alobo at ija.csic.es

That appears to be a message from your tar.  Perhaps try

tar zxvf ade4_1.00.tar.gz
R INSTALL ade4

I suspect the first step will fail, and it would be because your pthreads
library is not the right version.  Note that it is using /usr/local/lib,
and perhaps something has installed an older version there?

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Agustin Lobo wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I try to install the R version of ade4 on a linux (suse7.3) box
> with R 1.6.2 (from rpm)
> and get 
> /usr/local/bin/R INSTALL ade4_1.00.tar.gz
> tar: /usr/local/lib/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found 
> (required by /lib/librt.so.1)
> ERROR: cannot extract package from 'ade4_1.00.tar.gz'
> 
> But I actually have glibc 2.2.4 
> (at least this is what my suse's Yast conf. tool 
> tells me, perhaps there is a more direct way of checking 
> it?)
> 
> Having used the rpm for R, should I use the
> rpm for ade4? 
R packages do not come in rpms.

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