On Mon, 17 Jul 2017, Larry Martell wrote: > I am trying to install R on RHEL7. It fails with a lot of messages of > this form about different packages: R is in the EPEL (7) adjunct archive [herrold@centos-7 ~]$ sudo su - [sudo] password for herrold: Last login: Mon Jul 17 18:04:09 EDT 2017 on tty1 [root@centos-7 ~]# yum install R ... Package R-3.4.0-2.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version # so I uninstall it [root@centos-7 ~]# rpm -e R [root@centos-7 ~]# yum install R ... ================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================= Installing: R x86_64 3.4.0-2.el7 epel 27 k ---------- you may need to enable the epel repository ... as I run binaries from the CentOS sources rebuild project, rather than RHEL from Red Hat, I do not know the package name to do that -- but see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL see particularly the: NOTE for RHN users -- Russ herrold -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list