On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Pickering, Roger (NIH/NIAAA) [E] <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was having problems compiling packages in R using the gcc compiler, so I > thought I’d reinstall gcc and R. Unfortunately, I’d forgotten that I’d > installed gcc using pkgutil so I made the fatal mistake of just deleting the > directory with gcc and trying to download the latest gcc (when will gcc be > updated on pkgutil ? ) source code and compiling it. Because I have no C > compiler now I cannot compile the source code! Duh! I tried to download the > SUN Studio Compiler package, but it needs patches that I can’t seem to > download, in order to compile the gcc and R source code. > > So I have tried to reinstall or update the gcc package, but pkgutil thinks it > is still there and it’s the latest offered! I tried to remove the gcc > package, but it is marked as “in use”. I tried the force option, but to > avail. I don’t know what else to do. > > Which brings up another question – if and when I reinstall a working gcc > using pkgutil, do I go ahead and compile the source code so I can have an > up-to-date version of gcc or wait for pkgutil to update the compiler. > > Anyway, I really like pkgutil – when it works! I would really appreciate > help in getting around this problem.
Could you start by posting the output of "pkgutil -V" so we can see what OS release you have and what distribution you use because we do have a current gcc (4.8.0) in our "unstable" catalogs. As I'm sure you have just learned the hard way you never manually delete package files from a system with a package manager. Solaris still thinks the package is installed and that's why pkgutil is having a problem with it as well. You need to use the Solaris pkg-commands for lower level jobs, remember that pkgutil is basically just a wrapper around mostly pkgadd and pkgrm. The latter is a good start for you now. /peter _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users
