Neal Cariello
2003-Apr-17 02:54 UTC
[R] R Install problems with Redhat 9 : "tcl.so" versus "tcl.so.0"
Hi,
I'm having problems with a R Redhat Linux install. Please bear with me,
I've only been working with Linux for about a week here.
I have Redhat Linux 9 running on a recent Pentium machine. Here's the
install, showing I'm running kernel release 2.4.20-6.
[root at localhost root]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-6 #1 Thu Feb 27 10:06:59 EST 2003 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
I've downloaded R for linux Redhat 8.x, but I am running Redhat 9. I'm
assuming we have backward compatibility ?
To continue, attemping to load R produces the following errors:
[root at localhost temp]# rpm -ivh R-1.6.2-1.i386.rpm
warning: R-1.6.2-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 97d3544e
error: Failed dependencies:
libtcl.so.0 is needed by R-1.6.2-1
libtk.so.0 is needed by R-1.6.2-1
OK, I understand this so far. So I go to http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ to
get the packages. Searching for "libtcl.so.0" shows me that's
it's in the
tcl package. The most current one from http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ is
tcl-8.3.3-74.i386.rpm.
However, after considerable gnashing of teeth, I come to discover that tcl
is already on my machine as the following command shows:
[root at localhost temp]# rpm -qa | grep tcl
tcl-8.3.5-88
NOTE - tcl-8.3.5-88 that I have on my machine is newer than anything I found
on the Web, so when I tried to install the downloaded tcl-8.3.3-74.i386.rpm,
it of course fails with "warning: tcl-8.3.3-74.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature:
NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package tcl-8.3.5-88 (which is newer than
tcl-8.3.3-74) is already installed".
Here's all files on my system with filename *libtcl*:
[root at localhost root]# locate libtcl
/usr/lib/libtcl.so
/usr/lib/libtcl8.3.so
/usr/lib/libtclstub8.3.a
Is the "libtcl.so" really the "libtcl.so.0" that R is
looking for ? If so,
do I try and fool R somehow ?
Any idea why libtcl.so.0 is not being found in my installed tcl-8.3.5-88 ?
If this is heading towards source code compiling, please be explicit, I've
not done this before !
Grovelling for advice,
Neal in NC
Martyn Plummer
2003-Apr-17 10:10 UTC
[R] R Install problems with Redhat 9 : "tcl.so" versus "tcl.so.0"
Red Hat 9 is not binary compatible with Red Hat 8.x and you should not attempt to install an RPM for RH 8.x on a RH 9 system. An RPM of R 1.7.0 (released yesterday) for RH 9 will be available soon, but you must exercise some patience. Martyn On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 04:54, Neal Cariello wrote:> Hi, > > I'm having problems with a R Redhat Linux install. Please bear with me, > I've only been working with Linux for about a week here. > > I have Redhat Linux 9 running on a recent Pentium machine. Here's the > install, showing I'm running kernel release 2.4.20-6. > > [root at localhost root]# uname -a > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-6 #1 Thu Feb 27 10:06:59 EST 2003 i686 > i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > I've downloaded R for linux Redhat 8.x, but I am running Redhat 9. I'm > assuming we have backward compatibility ? > > To continue, attemping to load R produces the following errors: > > [root at localhost temp]# rpm -ivh R-1.6.2-1.i386.rpm > warning: R-1.6.2-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 97d3544e > error: Failed dependencies: > libtcl.so.0 is needed by R-1.6.2-1 > libtk.so.0 is needed by R-1.6.2-1 > > OK, I understand this so far. So I go to http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ to > get the packages. Searching for "libtcl.so.0" shows me that's it's in the > tcl package. The most current one from http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ is > tcl-8.3.3-74.i386.rpm. > > However, after considerable gnashing of teeth, I come to discover that tcl > is already on my machine as the following command shows: > > [root at localhost temp]# rpm -qa | grep tcl > tcl-8.3.5-88 > > NOTE - tcl-8.3.5-88 that I have on my machine is newer than anything I found > on the Web, so when I tried to install the downloaded tcl-8.3.3-74.i386.rpm, > it of course fails with "warning: tcl-8.3.3-74.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: > NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package tcl-8.3.5-88 (which is newer than > tcl-8.3.3-74) is already installed". > > Here's all files on my system with filename *libtcl*: > > [root at localhost root]# locate libtcl > /usr/lib/libtcl.so > /usr/lib/libtcl8.3.so > /usr/lib/libtclstub8.3.a > > Is the "libtcl.so" really the "libtcl.so.0" that R is looking for ? If so, > do I try and fool R somehow ? > > Any idea why libtcl.so.0 is not being found in my installed tcl-8.3.5-88 ? > > If this is heading towards source code compiling, please be explicit, I've > not done this before ! > > Grovelling for advice, > Neal in NC > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >
M.Kondrin
2003-Apr-17 19:32 UTC
[R] R Install problems with Redhat 9 : "tcl.so" versus "tcl.so.0"
Neal Cariello wrote:> Hi, > > I'm having problems with a R Redhat Linux install. Please bear with me, > I've only been working with Linux for about a week here. > > I have Redhat Linux 9 running on a recent Pentium machine. Here's the > install, showing I'm running kernel release 2.4.20-6. > > [root at localhost root]# uname -a > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-6 #1 Thu Feb 27 10:06:59 EST 2003 i686 > i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > I've downloaded R for linux Redhat 8.x, but I am running Redhat 9. I'm > assuming we have backward compatibility ? > > To continue, attemping to load R produces the following errors: > > [root at localhost temp]# rpm -ivh R-1.6.2-1.i386.rpm > warning: R-1.6.2-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 97d3544e > error: Failed dependencies: > libtcl.so.0 is needed by R-1.6.2-1 > libtk.so.0 is needed by R-1.6.2-1 > > OK, I understand this so far. So I go to http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ to > get the packages. Searching for "libtcl.so.0" shows me that's it's in the > tcl package. The most current one from http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ is > tcl-8.3.3-74.i386.rpm. > > However, after considerable gnashing of teeth, I come to discover that tcl > is already on my machine as the following command shows: > > [root at localhost temp]# rpm -qa | grep tcl > tcl-8.3.5-88 > > NOTE - tcl-8.3.5-88 that I have on my machine is newer than anything I found > on the Web, so when I tried to install the downloaded tcl-8.3.3-74.i386.rpm, > it of course fails with "warning: tcl-8.3.3-74.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: > NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package tcl-8.3.5-88 (which is newer than > tcl-8.3.3-74) is already installed". > > Here's all files on my system with filename *libtcl*: > > [root at localhost root]# locate libtcl > /usr/lib/libtcl.so > /usr/lib/libtcl8.3.so > /usr/lib/libtclstub8.3.a > > Is the "libtcl.so" really the "libtcl.so.0" that R is looking for ? If so, > do I try and fool R somehow ? > > Any idea why libtcl.so.0 is not being found in my installed tcl-8.3.5-88 ? > > If this is heading towards source code compiling, please be explicit, I've > not done this before ! > > Grovelling for advice, > Neal in NC > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >If you haven't /usr/lib/libtcl.so.0 on your system I would suggest to make a symlink ln -s /usr/lib/libtcl8.3.so /usr/lib/libtcl.so.0 May be ldconfig is also required. May be you will need to repeat this operation with libtk.so.0