Hi Roger, I have no experience with Centos 8 but I checked that it is possible to run docker on it. You might consider creating an ubuntu docker image with all the R tools that you need, and then run the image on the Centos 8 machine. You can specify a mount so that your docker image, including its R sessions, have access to the file system on the Centos 8 machine. Check out this link, for example: https://kifarunix.com/install-and-use-docker-ce-on-centos-8/
HTH, Eric On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:56 PM Marc Schwartz via R-help < r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > Hi Roger, > > I can't speak to the details here, albeit, there was a thread back in > April on R-Devel (also not the right list for this topic), where one of > the Fedora maintainers provided some insights for CentOS 7.x, where > there were missing/incompatible tool chain issues. > > I would recommend re-posting this to r-sig-fedora, which is focused upon > R on Red Hat and Fedora based Linux distributions, including CentOS: > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora > > The Fedora/EPEL R maintainers do monitor and respond on that list, and > can likely provide you with more informed replies. > > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz > > Roger Bos wrote on 5/24/21 3:41 PM: > > Dear all, > > > > I seem to be having an impossible time install R on my centos 8 virtual > > machine (I know centos 8 is no longer maintained, but it is a work server > > so I have no choice in the matter.). I installed EPEL and enabled > > PowerTools, but I cannot install R due to conflicts in the requirements > for > > openblas-devel. Could some help me get past this issue? Thanks in > > advance, Roger > > > > [RCOAdmin@usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo dnf install R > > CentOS-8 - PowerTools > > 14 kB/s | 4.3 > kB > > 00:00 > > Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 > > 30 kB/s | > 15 kB > > 00:00 > > Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 > > 52 kB/s | > 15 kB > > 00:00 > > Error: > > Problem: package R-devel-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires R-core-devel = > > 4.0.5-1.el8, but none of the providers can be installed > > - package R-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires R-devel = 4.0.5-1.el8, but > none > > of the providers can be installed > > - package R-core-devel-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires openblas-devel, but > > none of the providers can be installed > > - conflicting requests > > - nothing provides openblas(x86-32) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by > > openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.i686 > > - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-32) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by > > openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.i686 > > - nothing provides openblas(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by > > openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64 > > - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by > > openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64 > > (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' > to > > use not only best candidate packages) > > [RCOAdmin@usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo dnf install openblass-devel > > Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:31 ago on Mon 24 May 2021 09:34:56 > PM > > CEST. > > No match for argument: openblass-devel > > Error: Unable to find a match: openblass-devel > > [RCOAdmin@usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo dnf install openblas-devel > > Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:43 ago on Mon 24 May 2021 09:34:56 > PM > > CEST. > > Error: > > Problem: cannot install the best candidate for the job > > - nothing provides openblas(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by > > openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64 > > - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by > > openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64 > > (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' > to > > use not only best candidate packages) > > [RCOAdmin@usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo dnf install openblas-devel --nobest > > Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:52 ago on Mon 24 May 2021 09:34:56 > PM > > CEST. > > Error: > > Problem: conflicting requests > > - nothing provides openblas(x86-32) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by > > openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.i686 > > - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-32) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by > > openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.i686 > > - nothing provides openblas(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by > > openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64 > > - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by > > openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64 > > (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages) > > [RCOAdmin@usd1sapp101 ~]$ > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
