R help - Jul 2008 - Problem installing R on openSUSE 10.3

Dear All,

I am trying to install R 2.7 on my openSUSE 10.3. I have faithfully followed
instruction at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/suse/ReadMe.txt. I have
downloaded all the RPMs but still R complains about:

libtcl8.4.so is needed by R-base-2.7.1-6.1.i586

I searched for this library and found a one, tcl-8.4.15-22.i586.rpm at openSUSE
distribution site and installed. But R still complains about the same missing
library.

I don't know what I have to do now. Could please help me fixing this?

Thanks.

Best regards,
Ezhil

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:08:24 -0700 (PDT)
A Ezhil <ezhil02 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I am trying to install R 2.7 on my openSUSE 10.3. I have faithfully
followed instruction at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/suse/ReadMe.txt. I
have downloaded all the RPMs but still R complains about:
> 
> libtcl8.4.so is needed by R-base-2.7.1-6.1.i586
> 
Did you try automatic dependency resolution or did you download piece by piece?

> I searched for this library and found a one, tcl-8.4.15-22.i586.rpm at
openSUSE distribution site and installed. But R still complains about the same
missing library.
What gives 
rpm -q tcl ?

libtcl is provided by that package. I suspect somthing went wrong
when you installed tcl.

If tcl indeed is installed. Does libtcl physically exist ?
Here I get:
whereis libtcl8.4.so
libtcl8.4: /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so

Just wild guesses, but it's a new error ...

Best regards
Detlef Steuer
> 
> I don't know what I have to do now. Could please help me fixing this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Best regards,
> Ezhil
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org 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.

Hi,

I didn't try automatic dependency resolution instead installed each library
one by one. It seems that tcl is installed and the libtcl8.4.so exists.

Below is the info from the system:
> rpm -q tcl
tcl-8.4.15-22
> whereis libtcl8.4.so
libtcl8.4: /usr/lib64/libtcl8.4.so
> rpm -i R-base-2.7.1-6.1.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        libtcl8.4.so is needed by R-base-2.7.1-6.1.i586

Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Ezhil

--- On Tue, 7/15/08, Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer at hsu-hamburg.de>
wrote:
> From: Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer at hsu-hamburg.de>
> Subject: Re: [R] Problem installing R on openSUSE 10.3
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Cc: ezhil02 at yahoo.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 9:46 PM
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:08:24 -0700 (PDT)
> A Ezhil <ezhil02 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dear All,
> > 
> > I am trying to install R 2.7 on my openSUSE 10.3. I
> have faithfully followed instruction at
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/suse/ReadMe.txt. I have
> downloaded all the RPMs but still R complains about:
> > 
> > libtcl8.4.so is needed by R-base-2.7.1-6.1.i586
> > 
> 
> Did you try automatic dependency resolution or did you
> download piece by piece?
> 
> 
> > I searched for this library and found a one,
> tcl-8.4.15-22.i586.rpm at openSUSE distribution site and
> installed. But R still complains about the same missing
> library.
> 
> What gives 
> rpm -q tcl ?
> 
> libtcl is provided by that package. I suspect somthing went
> wrong
> when you installed tcl.
> 
> If tcl indeed is installed. Does libtcl physically exist ?
> Here I get:
> whereis libtcl8.4.so
> libtcl8.4: /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so
> 
> Just wild guesses, but it's a new error ...
> 
> Best regards
> Detlef Steuer
> 
> > 
> > I don't know what I have to do now. Could please
> help me fixing this?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Ezhil
> > 
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help at r-project.org 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.