I have finally reached a stage where I may have to bite the bullet,
grasp the nettle, screw my courage to the sticking place .... and
upgrade my Fedora version.
I am currently running Fedora 17. Which is of course antediluvian. But
everything I have seen on this list with respect to upgrading terrifies
me. Disasters seem to lurk everywhere and I haven't the skills to cope
with disasters. Nor do I have access to any support in respect of Fedora.
So, if you will bear with me, I'd like to start off with a preliminary
question:
The seeming necessity for upgrading arises from a pressing need to
upgrade "R" to version 3.2.0. When I try to build this version I get a
load of error messages (basically coming from gcc I think) 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
People from the R-help mailing list said that the problem lies in some
"compression related" libs --- zlib, bzlib, liblzma.
I tried installing zlib and zlib-devel (using yum install) and was told
in both cases that my system was up-to-date. I tried installing bzlib
and was told there was nothing by that name. I then installed lzma and
lzma-devel (*that* seemed to work) but it didn't help. Same undefined
references problems as before.
It was also suggested that I try building R-patched. So I tried; no
help there either.
So: Can anyone suggest what I can or should do to overcome this problem
*without* having to upgrade?
Given that the answer to my preliminary question is "No", can anyone be
so kind as to provide me with a *recipe* for upgrading, expressed in
simple-minded terms that I can understand? Something of the form:
(1) First, do this.
(2) Second, do something else.
(3) Third .....
You get the idea. I'm afraid vague generalities would be of no help to
me, since I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
(I know that step (0) is to make a backup of all my user files. Which I
know how to do and will do.)
A specific question, I guess, is: Do I use yum for such an upgrade?
(And if so, what is the syntax?) Or do I use fedup? (And likewise, what
is the syntax?)
If no-one wants to write out a set of instructions for me (and
admittedly I can see that they may well not want to) can someone point
me at such a set of instructions somewhere on the web? Again, they
would have to be expressed in a very simple-minded way. ("Upgrading
Fedora for Dummies".)
Everlastingly grateful for any help that anyone can extend.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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Technical Editor ANZJS
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
Home phone: +64-9-480-4619
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