Javier Arsuaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to install R in Linux 8.0 and I downloaded > "R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm" and did rpm -hiv R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm > and I am getting the following message: > > warning: R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID > 97d3544e > error: Failed dependencies: > libblas.so.3 is needed by R-1.7.1-1 > > Then I went and look for libblas (which is a linear algebra > library) that I found in > > http://www.hklpg.org/RPM/libblas.so.3.html > > and downloaded > blas-3.0-9.1mlx.i386.rpm > > Tried to do rpm -hiv blas-3.0-9.1mlx.i386.rpm > > and got > > error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted > (1) > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > > Any suggestions, idea, help...?????
Wouldn't know about the locking issue -- usually means that you have two processes trying to do RPM things. However, the "mlx" in the RPM you found suggests that it may be for a non-RedHat distribution (muLinux??). There's supposed to be a blas in RedHat itself: [EMAIL PROTECTED] R]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libblas.so.3 blas-3.0-18 so I suggest you get that and install instead. I believe Martyn recently compiled a list of RedHat packages that were necessary to install the RPMs and placed them somewhere easily findable. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help