R SIG Fedora - Feb 2017 - Install R on Redhat EL6.5 without internet - issue

Hi All,

Sorry if this email does not concern you, but I needed help to install R
and R-Studio on a Redhat Linux Enterprise Server WITHOUT Internet
connection.

I have a Mac and can scp rpm packages to the RedHat server.
I have gone through almost all of the options that google returned but none
helped me.

Even after installing the EPEL package, i get the following error :
"Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: HDP-2.3.
Please verify its path and try again "

I can see that the EPEL package did install on the server but the YUM
command is not able to find the EPEL repo.

Can someone please help as this is really urgent. Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Shankar

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Hello Shankar,

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 06:44:14PM +0530, Shankar Pandey
wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Sorry if this email does not concern you, but I needed help to install R
> and R-Studio on a Redhat Linux Enterprise Server WITHOUT Internet
> connection.
Ok. I have done that a while back.
> 
> I have a Mac and can scp rpm packages to the RedHat server.
> I have gone through almost all of the options that google returned but none
> helped me.
> 
> Even after installing the EPEL package, i get the following error :
> "Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
HDP-2.3.
> Please verify its path and try again "
> 
> I can see that the EPEL package did install on the server but the YUM
> command is not able to find the EPEL repo.
> 
IIRC, I needed to install R-core, R-core-devel packages
before installing Rstudio. From your Mac, pls see
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/r/

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