Javier Arsuaga <jarsuaga at cc.ucsf.edu> writes:
> I am trying to install R in Linux 8.0 and I downloaded
> "R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm" and did rpm -hiv R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm
> and I am getting the following message:
>
> warning: R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
> 97d3544e
> error: Failed dependencies:
> libblas.so.3 is needed by R-1.7.1-1
>
> Then I went and look for libblas (which is a linear algebra
> library) that I found in
>
> http://www.hklpg.org/RPM/libblas.so.3.html
>
> and downloaded
> blas-3.0-9.1mlx.i386.rpm
>
> Tried to do rpm -hiv blas-3.0-9.1mlx.i386.rpm
>
> and got
>
> error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted
> (1)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>
> Any suggestions, idea, help...?????
Wouldn't know about the locking issue -- usually means that you have
two processes trying to do RPM things. However, the "mlx" in the RPM
you found suggests that it may be for a non-RedHat distribution
(muLinux??). There's supposed to be a blas in RedHat itself:
[pd at turmalin R]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libblas.so.3
blas-3.0-18
so I suggest you get that and install instead. I believe Martyn
recently compiled a list of RedHat packages that were necessary to
install the RPMs and placed them somewhere easily findable.
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