R help - Mar 2007 - Installing R on a machine with 64-bit Opteron processors

I have been tasked with installing statistical and other data  
analysis applications on a new Sun Fire X4600 M2 x64 server that came  
equipped with eight AMD dual core Opteronn 64-bit processors. It is  
running the 64-bit version of Suse Linux 9.

I have read through the installation docs, and I guess I don't  
understand what to do, or even how to identify which version, if any,  
of this software is suitable for my computer environment.

What I want to know is if R has been ported to that environment and  
if so, how do I install it? I tried downloading it from one of the  
mirror web sites, and when I install it, I get

  euler src/R-base-2.4.1# rpm -i R-base-2.4.1-2.1.i586.rpm
warning: R-base-2.4.1-2.1.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID  
6b9d6523
error: Failed dependencies:
         xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
         xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
         xorg-x11-libs is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
         blas is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
         libreadline.so.5 is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
euler src/R-base-2.4.1#

I also tried the x386 version with the same results.

The documentation lists some prerequisite items to install such as  
blas, but I have searched and I can't see to locate that software. Is  
it public domain or a commercial product? I also see that my server  
already has x11 fonts installed, so I don't know what those errors  
are about.

Here's what rpm says about fonts ...

fontconfig-2.2.92.20040221-28.13
fontconfig-32bit-9-200407011229
fontconfig-devel-32bit-9-200407011229
ghostscript-fonts-other-7.07.1rc1-195.8
XFree86-fonts-75dpi-4.3.99.902-43.71
fontforge-20060715-7.3
ghostscript-fonts-std-7.07.1rc1-195.8
fontconfig-devel-2.2.92.20040221-28.13
xorg-x11-fonts-scalable-6.9.0-48
efont-unicode-0.4.0-630.1

So isn't "xorg-x11-fonts-scalable-6.9.0-48" what it wants? I guess
not. Is there a list of what this software needs AND where to  
download or purchase each item for Suse 9?

I am also wondering if this list has searchable archives? The list's  
web site shows archived postings, but I don't see a way to search them.

Hi Stan,

I haven't used SuSE for four years now, but the errors all point to
libraries and programs that need to be installed. I used in on a 32-bit machine
then.

As I recall, SuSE used to have a fabulous installation tool called yast2 (in my
opinion, the best of the lot in packaging), though FC seems to have done
something similar with pirut. In any case, isn't this option available with
SuSE for 64-bit machines? That would be really strange. Anyway, I distinctly
recall that R was in the SuSE package in those days, so perhaps it should still
be there (I think the package used to be called r-stat, but my memory is a
little unclear on this.)

If so, you are better off installing that because the dependencies are installed
automatically. The other option is to use yum or synaptic, but you will need to
set the repositories up.

I am curious: why choose SuSE? It used to be the rage some time ago, especially
because it was one of the first with a GUI installation interface, and the above
mentioned YaST tool, but fewer people use seem to use it nowadays.

HTH.

Best,
Ranjan







On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:36:47 -0400 Stan Horwitz <stan at temple.edu>
wrote:
> I have been tasked with installing statistical and other data  
> analysis applications on a new Sun Fire X4600 M2 x64 server that came  
> equipped with eight AMD dual core Opteronn 64-bit processors. It is  
> running the 64-bit version of Suse Linux 9.
> 
> I have read through the installation docs, and I guess I don't  
> understand what to do, or even how to identify which version, if any,  
> of this software is suitable for my computer environment.
> 
> What I want to know is if R has been ported to that environment and  
> if so, how do I install it? I tried downloading it from one of the  
> mirror web sites, and when I install it, I get
> 
>   euler src/R-base-2.4.1# rpm -i R-base-2.4.1-2.1.i586.rpm
> warning: R-base-2.4.1-2.1.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID  
> 6b9d6523
> error: Failed dependencies:
>          xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
>          xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
>          xorg-x11-libs is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
>          blas is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
>          libreadline.so.5 is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
> euler src/R-base-2.4.1#
> 
> I also tried the x386 version with the same results.
> 
> The documentation lists some prerequisite items to install such as  
> blas, but I have searched and I can't see to locate that software. Is  
> it public domain or a commercial product? I also see that my server  
> already has x11 fonts installed, so I don't know what those errors  
> are about.
> 
> Here's what rpm says about fonts ...
> 
> fontconfig-2.2.92.20040221-28.13
> fontconfig-32bit-9-200407011229
> fontconfig-devel-32bit-9-200407011229
> ghostscript-fonts-other-7.07.1rc1-195.8
> XFree86-fonts-75dpi-4.3.99.902-43.71
> fontforge-20060715-7.3
> ghostscript-fonts-std-7.07.1rc1-195.8
> fontconfig-devel-2.2.92.20040221-28.13
> xorg-x11-fonts-scalable-6.9.0-48
> efont-unicode-0.4.0-630.1
> 
> So isn't "xorg-x11-fonts-scalable-6.9.0-48" what it wants? I
guess
> not. Is there a list of what this software needs AND where to  
> download or purchase each item for Suse 9?
> 
> I am also wondering if this list has searchable archives? The list's  
> web site shows archived postings, but I don't see a way to search them.
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>

Stan,

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:36:47 -0400
Stan Horwitz <stan at temple.edu> wrote:
> I have been tasked with installing statistical and other data  
> analysis applications on a new Sun Fire X4600 M2 x64 server that came  
> equipped with eight AMD dual core Opteronn 64-bit processors. It is  
> running the 64-bit version of Suse Linux 9.
the oldest version for which rpms are provided at the moment is 9.3 .
If you have something older you need to recompile yourself. 
Normally you just do the usual configure and make stuff and everything falls in
place.

Nevertheless you need to install some libraries for that to work, too.
If you can not use yast2 and use the installation source given in the ReadMe
you can find out with 
rpm -q --whatprovides name_of_your_missing_dependency

what to install.

Hope that helps.
Detlef
> 
> I have read through the installation docs, and I guess I don't  
> understand what to do, or even how to identify which version, if any,  
> of this software is suitable for my computer environment.
> 
> What I want to know is if R has been ported to that environment and  
> if so, how do I install it? I tried downloading it from one of the  
> mirror web sites, and when I install it, I get
> 
>   euler src/R-base-2.4.1# rpm -i R-base-2.4.1-2.1.i586.rpm
> warning: R-base-2.4.1-2.1.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID  
> 6b9d6523
> error: Failed dependencies:
>          xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
>          xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
>          xorg-x11-libs is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
>          blas is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
>          libreadline.so.5 is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
> euler src/R-base-2.4.1#
> 
> I also tried the x386 version with the same results.
> 
> The documentation lists some prerequisite items to install such as  
> blas, but I have searched and I can't see to locate that software. Is  
> it public domain or a commercial product? I also see that my server  
> already has x11 fonts installed, so I don't know what those errors  
> are about.
> 
> Here's what rpm says about fonts ...
> 
> fontconfig-2.2.92.20040221-28.13
> fontconfig-32bit-9-200407011229
> fontconfig-devel-32bit-9-200407011229
> ghostscript-fonts-other-7.07.1rc1-195.8
> XFree86-fonts-75dpi-4.3.99.902-43.71
> fontforge-20060715-7.3
> ghostscript-fonts-std-7.07.1rc1-195.8
> fontconfig-devel-2.2.92.20040221-28.13
> xorg-x11-fonts-scalable-6.9.0-48
> efont-unicode-0.4.0-630.1
> 
> So isn't "xorg-x11-fonts-scalable-6.9.0-48" what it wants? I
guess
> not. Is there a list of what this software needs AND where to  
> download or purchase each item for Suse 9?
> 
> I am also wondering if this list has searchable archives? The list's  
> web site shows archived postings, but I don't see a way to search them.
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

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