# Error while installing r-base-dev **URL:** \ **Category:** SLED Install-Boot\ **Created:** [November 27, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/error-while-installing-r-base-dev/24814 "2013-11-27T15:24:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jeppo21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@jeppo21](https://forums.suse.com/u/jeppo21)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/error-while-installing-r-base-dev/24814/1 "2013-11-27T15:24:48Z")
Hello there! I hope to be in the right place! I should run some R code which calls C subroutines and for this reason I should install r-base-dev. I have SuSE 11 (patchlevel 1). I’m TOTALLY new to SuSE and to linux, but googling around I found out that I just had to run in the terminal the following code: ```auto sudo zypper r-base-dev ``` But when doing that, I get the following message: [CODE]sudo zypper install r-base-dev Retrieving repository ‘SUSE:SLE-11’ metadata [\] File ‘/repodata/repomd.xml’ not found on medium ‘[http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...standard/](http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...standard/)’ Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/?] (a): i Retrieving repository ‘SUSE:SLE-11’ metadata [error] Repository ‘SUSE:SLE-11’ is invalid. Can’t provide /repodata/repomd.xml : User-requested skipping of a file Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Warning: Disabling repository ‘SUSE:SLE-11’ because of the above error. Loading repository data… Reading installed packages… ‘r-base-dev’ not found. Resolving package dependencies… Nothing to do.[/CODE] Reading other similar question, I guessed that the name of the repository has been changed, but I didn’t find the right one. Could someone be so kind to help me with this? Thank you very much and sorry for bothering you! ---
**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikewillis)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/error-while-installing-r-base-dev/24814/2 "2013-11-27T18:22:26Z")
Welcome to Linux/SUSE! I think the first thing we need to do is establish which version of SUSE you’re using. “SuSE 11 (patchlevel 1)” could be taken to mean either [SUSE Linux Desktop Enterprise](https://www.suse.com/) 11 SP1 , or [openSUSE](http://www.opensuse.org/) 11.1. Can you post the output of ` $ cat /etc/SuSE-release` Either way I my answer would be that you need to re-install with something newer as both SLED 11 SP1 and openSUSE 11.1 are End Of Life. No support, no updates. Since you’re just starting out you should start out with a current version. r-base-dev seems more like a Debian/Ubuntu type name. SUSE development packages have names ending -devel. You can get an R-base-devel for the current version of SLED or openSUSE at [http://software.opensuse.org/package/R-base-devel?search\_term=R-base-devel](http://software.opensuse.org/package/R-base-devel?search_term=R-base-devel) ---
**Author:** ![jeppo21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@jeppo21](https://forums.suse.com/u/jeppo21)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 1:24pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/error-while-installing-r-base-dev/24814/3 "2013-11-28T13:24:02Z")
Thank you very much for your answer Mike! I already ran that command and actually my version is SLED 11 SP1! The problem’s that I’m just remotly connecting to my professor’s computer, so I cannot force him to install a newer version, unfortunately! Thank you very much, anyway, I try to see what I can do! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikewillis)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/error-while-installing-r-base-dev/24814/4 "2013-11-28T14:49:40Z")
[QUOTE=jeppo21;17748]Thank you very much for your answer Mike! I already ran that command and actually my version is SLED 11 SP1! The problem’s that I’m just remotly connecting to my professor’s computer, so I cannot force him to install a newer version, unfortunately! Thank you very much, anyway, I try to see what I can do! :)[/QUOTE] If you go to [http://software.opensuse.org/package/R-base-devel?search\_term=R-base-devel](http://software.opensuse.org/package/R-base-devel?search_term=R-base-devel) and click ‘Show more packages for unsupported distributions’ at the bottom, you’ll find packages for SLE SP1. The repo is at [http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/base/SLE\_11\_SP1/](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/base/SLE_11_SP1/) You could add that url as a repo on the machine, do it through YaST or `$ cd /etc/zypp/repos.d $ wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/base/SLE_11_SP1/devel:languages:R:base.repo $ zypper refresh ` Then install with zypper ```auto $ zypper in R-base-devel ``` ---
**Author:** ![jeppo21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@jeppo21](https://forums.suse.com/u/jeppo21)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/error-while-installing-r-base-dev/24814/5 "2013-11-28T15:04:08Z")
Yeah! It worked! Thank you so much! You have been really kind! I’ll buy you a virtual beer! 🙂