R help - May 2009 - Problems intalling on Suse 10.3 x86_64 OS

Alright, i am unsure of the posting rules for these types of questions but i
will be as help ful as possible.  My windows based system cant handle a
model i am running so i am trying to install R on our Linux based machine
but i have encountered the following and i dont know linux much but my
intuition is that i need to install some other files first.  Any thoughts?

#### YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2009-05-14 12:20:48 ####

No valid solution found with just resolvables of best architecture.
    With this run only resolvables with the best architecture have been
regarded.
    Regarding all possible resolvables takes time, but can come to a valid
result.
    Conflict Resolution:
        ( ) Make a solver run with ALL possibilities.
R-base cannot be installed due to missing dependencies
    There are no installable providers of libtcl8.5.so()(64bit) for
R-base-2.9.0-2.1.x86_64[home:dsteuer]
    === R-base-2.9.0-2.1.x86_64[home:dsteuer] ==       
R-base-2.9.0-2.1.x86_64[home:dsteuer] will be installed by another
application. (ApplLow/ApplHigh)
        pango-1.18.2-4.x86_64 is needed by
R-base-2.9.0-2.1.x86_64[home:dsteuer] (libpangocairo-1.0.so.0()(64bit))
        xorg-x11-libXext-7.2-65.x86_64 is needed by
R-base-2.9.0-2.1.x86_64[home:dsteuer] (libXext.so.6()(64bit))
    25 more...
    Conflict Resolution:
        ( ) do not install R-base
        ( ) Ignore this requirement just here

#### YaST2 conflicts list END ###

Im not sure what else info to provide.  Hope you guys can help.  

Cheers, 
JR

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On Thu, 14 May 2009 12:32:18 -0700 (PDT) PDXRugger <J_R_36 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

P> 
P> Alright, i am unsure of the posting rules for these types of
P> questions but i will be as help ful as possible.  My windows based
P> system cant handle a model i am running so i am trying to install R

Why? To many data?

P> on our Linux based machine but i have encountered the following and
P> i dont know linux much but my intuition is that i need to install
P> some other files first.  Any thoughts?

P>     There are no installable providers of libtcl8.5.so()(64bit) for

It seems that you need a more recent tcl/tk Installation. Suse 10.3 is
a little bit old. Maybe 8.5 was not included. So you could see if you
find a newer version. Sometimes you can take the repository of the more
recent opensuse version and install newer versions from there. 

Unfortunately yast is very sensitive on dependencies. From my
experience the smart package manager is faster and less touchy than
Yast/zypper on the older Opensuse systems.

Alternatively you could upgrade you distro, install another one or run
a live-System. You could run a live Usb-Ubuntu to run your programs.
Depends on what time you have and how flexible your admins are...

hth
Stefan