[rhelv6-list] Installing R 3.4.0

[Larry Martell]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Brian Long (brilong) <brilong at cisco.com> wrote:
> See inline.
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> On 7/21/17, 11:04 AM, "rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Larry Martell" <rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     I am trying to install R 3.4.0 on RHEL6. If I look here is it there:
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>     http://mirror.sjc02.svwh.net/fedora-epel/6/x86_64/
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>     I did this:
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>     sudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
>     sudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-6-server-extras-rpms
>     wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
>     rpm epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
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> Did you actually run “rpm –Uvh epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm” to install the RPM?

Yes, I did do that, and I got "package epel-release-6-8.noarch is
already installed. Bu then I did this "sudo rpm -Uvh
epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm --force" and then I was able to
successfully install R.

Thanks!