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2000 Jan 20
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installing R on slackware linux, another route
...ves of this list and
noticed a post from Murray Jorgensen asking about how
to install R under slackware.
The replies were all to the effect that he should
compile from the source.
There is another path that is better for some
purposes.
Download the red hat binary package, the .rpm file,
then run rpm2targz on it, a slackware program designed
to convert rpm packages to slackware packages.
For some strange reason, you then have to rename the
resulting file from *.tar.gz to *.tgz or pkgtool, the
native package management program for slackware, won't
like it.
In the same directory, run pkgtool. pk...