On Tue, 13-Jan-2004 at 03:35AM +0000, Sam McClatchie wrote:
|> OS: linux Mandrake 9.1
|> R Version 1.8.1 (2003-11-21),
|> GNU Emacs 21.2.93.1
|> -------------------
|> |> Colleagues
|> |> I'm reinstalling R after reformatting a partition containing the |> applications software. The urpmi returned this error:
I've not used urpmi. Is that to say you had it working from an rpm already and this is a way to get it onto another petition?
|> Should I uninstall the rpm using something like urpmi.removemedia, and
rpm -e is sufficient, IIRC.
|> then try and install the source with ./congure, make and make install?
The only Mandrake I've tried is 9.0 which gave me all sorts of problems with things not working (some bits didn't seem to get from the installation CDs). I've gone back to Redhat 7.3.
Having said that, I prefer to install from the tgz file. The installation procedure is very well thought out and it takes at most 20 minutes. Another good reason is so that you can still use previous versions if something appears to be a 'new' bug. For most other things, rpms are great.
HTH
-------------------- OS: linux Mandrake 9.1 R Version 1.8.1 (2003-11-21), GNU Emacs 21.2.93.1
Hi Patrick
My need to reinstall R arose from a classic mistake. I had copied the gnucash rpm into /usr/lib/, and then installed it, which resulted in a /usr/lib/usr/lib structure. In correcting my error, I was too quick with my fingers, and as root, deleted my /usr/lib directory (I had to laugh, after I finished cursing). Anyway, I had to reformat my software partition.
There does seem to be a problem with the mandrake 9.1 rpm. I've just installed the R 1.8.1 sources with ./configure, make, make install (after installing the C, C++ and Fortran compilers from the Mandrake software management gui). Everything worked beautifully.
Thanks
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