[R] R install in Fedora

Marc Schwartz
Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:02:10 -0000

On Sep 15, 2010, at 5:14 AM, wesley mathew wrote:

> Dear All
>
> As you suggested I tried to install  was trying to install
> R-2.11.1-3.fc13.1686 in  Fedora-13-i386 but it also shows error.
> I wrote  yum install R-2.11.1-3fc13.i686
> Errors
> Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repond.xml) for repository: fedora.
> Please verify its path and try again.
> Could you please help me to solve this problem.
> Thanks in advance
> Kind Regards
>
> Wesley C Mathew


The command that I told you to use was:

  yum install R

to be used as "root". Note that there is nothing after the
"R".

You have to have root privileges to use yum and to install the R RPMs. So you
either need to use:

  su -

then enter the root password and then use the command above, or if you have set
up "sudo", you can use:

  sudo yum install R

after which you will need to enter the root password.

If you still get the error, you have a configuration problem with your yum repo
setup, which means that you really need to be looking to the Fedora (not R)
lists for assistance, since it is not an R issue.

That being said, as I also noted, if you post to the R-SIG-Fedora list, there
are folks there who can offer Fedora specific assistance for R, as this thread
is getting to be OT for R-Help.

Marc Schwartz