[LON-CAPA-admin] Update difficulties

[Todd Ruskell]

Good call, Stuart.  This was exactly it.  As always, thanks for the help
and your quick response.

Todd


On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Stuart Raeburn <raeburn at msu.edu> wrote:

> Todd,
>
> My guess is that you have included the EPEL repo (
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/) in your enabled repos.
>
> The version of R available from EPEL 5 is R-3.1.0.el5, but the LON-CAPA
> CentOS 5 repository (http://install.loncapa.org) has R-2.13.0-1.el5.
>
> Packages such as R-quadprog available from the LON-CAPA CentOS 5 repo were
> built against this older version of R.
>
> When time allows (in the near future) I will look into building updated
> R-* packages against R-3.1.0, and testing with LON-CAPA 2.11.0.
>
> If my diagnosis is correct, then one solution for you for now would be to:
>
> (a) temporarily disable use of the epel repo
> (b) use:
>
> yum remove R-core
>
> to remove R, R-core, and the other R-* packages, as well as the
> LONCAPA-prerequisites rpm
>
> (c) do:
> yum install LONCAPA-prerequisites
>
> to re-install R, R-core etc. and the LONCAPA-prerequisites rpm from the
> LON-CAPA CentOS 5 repo
>
> (d) re-enable the epel repo
> (e) temporarily block update of R and R-core by adding:
>
> exclude=R,R-core
>
> to /etc/yum.conf
>
> Once I have updated the LON-CAPA CentOS repo with newer R-* packages built
> against R-3.1.0 you should remove the line: exclude=R,R-core
>
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
>
>
>
> Quoting Todd Ruskell <todd.ruskell at gmail.com>:
>
>  When trying to patch our machines, they fail with "Missing Dependency:
>> libRblas.so is needed by package R-quadprog-1.4.12-0.centos5.lc.i386
>> (loncapa-updates-basearch)"
>>
>> If you look for the library it's there, but it seems there's something
>> wrong with either the yum database or the package itself. Cleaning caches
>> doesn't help. Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Todd
>>
>>
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