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Hi, I am totally new to Linux and trying to install R and related tools. I downloaded the rpm files for el4/x86_64 from the CRAN repository and tried to run rpm but it did not go through complaining about dependencies. Do all the listed rpm files need to be installed? What is the order in which these need to be installed? I appreciate any help with this or any suggestions for alternate ways

...tain the Fedora version. Yet, there room for new packages and contributors. Currently, around 1000 packages are available, and we've been growing at the rate of several dozen packages every week. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL How to use EPEL: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse You can look for packages here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#WhereIsTheSoftwareRepositoryLocated Looking for a package not in EPEL or other questions? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ ==================================================== -- This message has been scanned...

Hi all, I''m doing a new install of my puppet server and I''m doing it like: 1.-) adding epel repo: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse 2.-) yum -y install puppet-server 3.-) rm -rf /etc/puppet 4.-) copy my old puppet conf (from puppet-0.24.5 to 0.24.6) mv /etc/puppet.old /etc/puppet 5.-) start puppetmaster: [gridinstall etc]# /etc/init.d/puppetmaster start Starting puppetmaster: Got 1 failure(s) while initializing: change f...

...r Linux desktop from afar. xrdp is packaged for Fedora and EPEL http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=9026 now you can just type yum -y install xrdp to install it. it's also available in EPEL repo (for redhat enterprise and centos) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse I have only installed from source, haven't tried this rpm.

Hi All, I want to build libguestfs in my RHEL5.3 box which has already KVM installed, what I am using are: libguestfs-1.0.65.tar.gz fakechroot-2.9-23.el5.x86_64.rpm fakechroot-libs-2.9-23.el5.x86_64.rpm fakeroot-1.11-19.el5.x86_64.rpm febootstrap-2.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm squashfs-tools-3.0-4.x86_64.rpm Then I ran "./configure" in libguestfs-1.0.65, everything was OK, but when I ran

Hi all, I'm trying to compile R 2.11.0 on a redhat machine, but I'm getting the following error when I run ./configure: checking whether gfortran appends underscores to external names... yes checking whether gfortran appends extra underscores to external names... no checking whether mixed C/Fortran code can be run... configure: WARNING: cannot run mixed C/Fortran code configure: error:

Is there an easy way or anyway to establish a 128 bit encrypted tunnel between a handful of centos 5.2 boxes? I am not familiar with this at all. Jerry

Is there an RPM for this? I think it's in the kdeedu package on the FC6 DVD. My wife is an amateur astronomer and she uses this excellent program. If upstream isn't including it, can I get it and not break my CentOS 4.4 system? (Also, I'd like to migrate her and my daughter to CentOS). TIA, Lanny

Hello, I have basic familiarity with Unix but by most standards a novice. I am trying to install R on a linux machine and am following the instructions in the R install and admin guide in terms of what is required to compile the R source code. I downloaded R version 2.11.1 and extracted the files into my home directory. I realize I need a FORTRAN compiler to help with this process and have