How To Install R-rpm-macros on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install R-rpm-macros on CentOS 8.
What is R-rpm-macros
This package contains the R RPM macros, that most implementations should rely on. You should not need to install this package manually as the R-devel package requires it. So install the R-devel package instead.
We can use yum or dnf to install R-rpm-macros on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install R-rpm-macros.
Install R-rpm-macros on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install R-rpm-macros using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install R-rpm-macros
Install R-rpm-macros on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install R-rpm-macros using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install R-rpm-macros
How To Uninstall R-rpm-macros on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the R-rpm-macros package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove R-rpm-macros
R-rpm-macros Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/rpm/R-deps.R
/usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/R.attr
/usr/share/doc/R-rpm-macros
/usr/share/doc/R-rpm-macros/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/R-rpm-macros
/usr/share/licenses/R-rpm-macros/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install R-rpm-macros on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
