installing texinfo on redhat centos 7 ppc64

Question

I am new to RedHat and would like some help to install R-devel.

I tried to install it using the following command:

yum install R-devel

but leads to the first error below...

I am on CentOS 7 with a ppc64 architecture...

I have got to the point of needing to install texinfo-tex, lapack-devel and blas-devel. Please see below:

Error: Package: R-core-devel-3.1.3-1.el7.ppc64 (epel)
            Requires: texinfo-tex
Error: Package: R-core-devel-3.1.3-1.el7.ppc64 (epel)
           Requires: lapack-devel
Error: Package: R-core-devel-3.1.3-1.el7.ppc64 (epel)
           Requires: blas-devel >= 3.0

yum install texinfo-tex does not seem to work as it says No package texinfo-tex available.

So I downloaded the .rpm and used the following command...to try and install it

su -c 'rpm -Uvh texinfo-5.2-7.fc22.ppc64.rpm'

with which i get the following error

warning: texinfo-5.2-7.fc22.ppc64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID xxxxxx:NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
    perl(Unicode::EastAsianWidth) is needed by texinfo-5.2-7.fc22.ppc64

So i try and install the dependency perl(Unicode::EastAsianWidth)

again trying to download and try and install it...

su -c 'rpm -Uvh perl-Unicode-EastAsianWidth-1.33-4.fc22.noarch.rpm'

warning: perl-Unicode-EastAsianWidth-1.33-4.fc22.noarch.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID xxxxx: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
         perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.20.0) is needed by perl-Unicode-EastAsianWidth-1.33-4.fc22.noarch

so i tried to also install perl using the following:

 su -c 'rpm -Uvh perl-5.20.1-314.fc22.ppc64.rpm'

but got even more dependecy checks....i feel like this probably isn't right...am i missing something...

I have also installed perlbrew to check my perl versions this is my result

perlbrew available
#  perl-5.21.10   
  perl-5.20.2
  perl-5.18.4
  perl-5.16.3
  perl-5.14.4
  perl-5.12.5
  perl-5.10.1
  perl-5.8.9
  perl-5.6.2
  perl5.005_04
  perl5.004_05
  perl5.003_07

Any help would be greatly appreciated....

Answer 1

Try this command as the root user:

yum localinstall texinfo-5.2-7.fc22.ppc64.rpm