The Requires on R-core-devel are not in any way intended to prep an environment to build R (they are intended to provide the minimum requirements for the R header files to work).
To do what you want, your best bet is to pull down the R.spec file: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/R/raw/rawhide/f/R.spec Then, use the "builddep" plug-in from dnf to install the BuildRequires: dnf builddep R.spec ~spot On Mon, Nov 7, 2022, 8:26 AM Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: > As R Develeoper, I've tried to install R in a fedora podman > container, starting from plain fedora > > dnf install R-core-devel > dnf install emacs-ess > dnf install subversion > > cd /usr/local > mkdir -p .../R > cd .../R > svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk R-devel > mkdir -p inst/R-devel > cd inst/R-devel/ > ../../R-devel/configure > > and then it's telling me I will not have readline, so I stop > > and do > > dnf install libreadline-devel > > but then X11 libraries/headers are missing etc. > > ------------------------------------------------- > > I had hoped that the R-core-devel would already provide me > with what I needed. > > Is there a list of such things to easily add to my list to add > after starting to run podman in a "base fedora" ? > > {I'd be glad to be CC'ed as I'm not subscribed to R-SIG-Fedora} > > Thank you in advance, > Martin > > -- > Martin Maechler > ETH Zurich and R core team > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Fedora mailing list > R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Fedora mailing list R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora