Rolf,
Just curious, but why do you use F17? The disasters that you anticipate may happen will be
more and more likely the longer you wait to upgrade to a new F. (And, with no upgrades of
any kind, aren't you on line for a greater disaster: for instance, you are not patched
for the severe openssl vulnerability that was discovered and all over the news a year or
two ago unless you installed it by hand yourself.)
If on the other hand, you do not want to upgrade as frequently as most of the rest of us
here, you should either move to a long-term distribution (such as CentOS or
ScientificLinux, which appears to have better support) or to a rolling-release
distribution such as ArchLinux (whose installation is, IMO, its Achilles heel so you are
better off with ManjaroLinux). With the first set, there also appears to be fewer packages
available, but they may be enough for you.
Of course, it would be nicer if there was a rolling-release version of Fedora (precisely
for people like you). Rawhide, often offered by some as a rolling-release equivalent, is
too unstable to be of value to people who are upgrade-phobic. (Frankly, even I would not
touch Rawhide.) Even Windoze is getting rid of upgrades.
Best wishes,
Ranjan
On Mon, 11 May 2015 19:42:53 +1200 Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
On 11/05/15 16:19, Tom Callaway wrote:
> I just landed in Paris, and haven't read backwards in this thread,
> but I've done 3.2.0 builds for all current Fedora releases, they're
> all in updates-testing (I think the Fedora 22 builds are in updates
> stable now).
>
> The thing that changed is that R doesn't bundle a number of libraries
> like it used to. This doesn't affect the official Fedora R package,
> since we never used the bundled libraries. This is documented in the
> 3.2.0 release notes.
>
> If you really want to build from source, I think you can run:
>
> yum-builddep R
>
> That will install all the necessary Build Requires to build R from
> source. You need to have the yum-utils package installed for that
> command to exist.
>
> Hope that helps.
It certainly did! Success. Thank you hugely!
But if I may ask a supplementary question: You say "If you really want
to build from source ....". No, I don't *want* to; I have to. At least
in my understanding. I run the ancient and beyond end-of-life Fedora
17. (I haven't the nerve to try to upgrade; my current system may be
kludgey, but at least it works. And I *know* that if I try to upgrade
all hell will break loose.) It is my understanding that "current Fedora
releases" *do not* include Fedora 17. Or do they?
If so, how would I get my hands on an R binary for Fedora 17?
That's really just an academic question at present, since I have now
managed, thanks to your help, to build R 3.2.0 from source.
Thanks again.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
>
> On May 11, 2015 3:10 AM, Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/05/15 12:06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>>> 1. R 3.2.0 is packaged for Fedora now; it's in Rawhide and Fedora 22.
>>> I'm running Fedora 22 (late beta) and haven't had any problems with
R.
>>> RStudio Desktop Preview (0.99.435) from the RStudio Fedora RPM is also
>>> running fine. You might save yourself some hassles by upgrading to
>>> Fedora 22.
>>
>> I'm sure I would, but I don't dare. Everything I see on the Fedora
>> mailing list fills me with terror in respect of the disasters that can
>> occur. I don't have the skills to cope with such disasters and I have
>> no access to support in respect of Fedora.
>>
>>> 2. I have a bash script to build R from source that works on Fedora
>>> 22. It probably also works on Fedora 21 but it's been a while since I
>>> tried it. Note that it installs 'calibre' and makes the ebooks of
the
>>> manuals. It also does some packaging things at the end you probably
>>> don't need.
>>
>> Thanks, but I don't think it's any help in my situation.
>>
>> I had no problem at all building R 3.1.2 from source. What changed from
>> 3.1.2 to 3.2.0 that would cause those undefined reference problems?
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Rolf Turner
>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am cross-posting this to r-sig-fedora (I hope that's not an
egregious sin)
>>>> in the hope that doing so might provide some source of insight.
>>>>
>>>> I tried
>>>>
>>>> sudo yum install zlib
>>>>
>>>> and was told
>>>>
>>>>> Package zlib-1.2.5-7.fc17.x86_64 already installed and latest
version
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Likewise for "zlib-devel".
>>>>
>>>> I also tried
>>>>
>>>> sudo yum install bzlib
>>>>
>>>> and was told
>>>>
>>>>> No package bzlib available.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Likewise for "bzlib-devel".
>>>>
>>>> Finally I sort of got some joy with "lzma" and
"lzma-devel" --- both of
>>>> those yielded an actual installation. But it didn't help.
>>>>
>>>> I re-did the configure and then the make and got the same
errors/complaints
>>>> about undefined references to deflate, inflate, crc32, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone provide any guidance/suggestions about what else I could
try?
>>>> I'm getting very frustrated! :-)
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Rolf Turner
>>>>
>>>> On 11/05/15 00:50, peter dalgaard wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10 May 2015, at 14:15 , Rolf Turner
<r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am just now getting around to upgrading from 3.1.2 to 3.2.0
and am
>>>>>> getting hammered by a problem which is beyond my limited
capabilities of
>>>>>> handling.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I executed
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ./configure --with-tcltk --with cairo
>>>>>>
>>>>>> which seemed to go just fine, and then did:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> make
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In fairly short order I started getting error messages like
unto:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> connections.o: In function `gzcon_write':
>>>>>>>
/home/rolf/Desktop/Rinst/R-3.2.0/src/main/connections.c:5469: undefined
>>>>>>> reference to `deflate'
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There were also complaints about undefined references to
inflate, crc32,
>>>>>> deflateEnd, inflateEnd, inflateReset, inflateInit2_,
deflateInit2_,
>>>>>> compress, uncompress, and zlibVersion, many of which were issued
repeatedly.
>>>>>> It finally gave up, saying:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A bit of googling informed me (I think?) that a workaround was
to
>>>>>> configure using --without-system-pcre. This however achieved
nothing in my
>>>>>> case.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can anyone point me at what I need to do to fix this? Install
or update
>>>>>> something?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am running an (elderly, no-longer-supported) Fedora 17 Linux.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for any assistance.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> PCRE (regular expressions) won't help you with compression
algorithms...
>>>>> If anything, it is --without-system-xz, -zlib, -bzlib that would
come into
>>>>> play, but it would be a better idea to ensure that you do have the
libraries
>>>>> and headers installed.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not completely up to speed on Fedora, but the order of the
day is that
>>>>> you need to install some variation of lzma/zlib/bzlib and their
-dev/-devel
>>>>> header files etc. Check appendix A.1 and A.2 of the R Installation
and
>>>>> Administration manual.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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