R Distribution 2.15.1 for Solaris x64

Question

Hi,
I have tried to install the R Distribution for Solaris x64 on my test box (as preparation to production upgrade).
My release is vanilla Solaris10 u10 (per readme file for the R distribution):
Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 s10x_u10wos_17b X86
I have received following errors (in fact there are over 30k lines with errors, all "same") during installation:
./install.sh
Transferring <ORD> package instance
Done
You need root privilege to proceed ......
Processing package instance <ORD> from </tmp/pkgs>
Oracle R Distribution(x86_64) 2.15.1
Oracle
Using </usr/lib/64> as the package base directory.
## Processing package information.
## Processing system information.
## Verifying disk space requirements.
## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed.
## Checking for setuid/setgid programs.
This package contains scripts which will be executed with super-user
permission during the process of installing this package.
Do you want to continue with the installation of <ORD> [y,n,?] y
Installing Oracle R Distribution as <ORD>
## Installing part 1 of 1.
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to create package object </usr/lib/64/R>.
pathname does not exist
group name <svrtech> not found in group table(s)
owner name <aime> not found in passwd table(s)
/usr/lib/64/R
/usr/lib/64/R/COPYING
ERROR: attribute verification of </usr/lib/64/R/COPYING> failed
group name <svrtech> not found in group table(s)
owner name <aime> not found in passwd table(s)
/usr/lib/64/R/NEWS
ERROR: attribute verification of </usr/lib/64/R/NEWS> failed
group name <svrtech> not found in group table(s)
owner name <aime> not found in passwd table(s)
/usr/lib/64/R/SVN-REVISION
ERROR: attribute verification of </usr/lib/64/R/SVN-REVISION> failed
group name <svrtech> not found in group table(s)
owner name <aime> not found in passwd table(s)
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to create package object </usr/lib/64/R/bin>.
pathname does not exist
group name <svrtech> not found in group table(s)
owner name <aime> not found in passwd table(s)
/usr/lib/64/R/bin
/usr/lib/64/R/bin/BATCH
ERROR: attribute verification of </usr/lib/64/R/bin/BATCH> failed
group name <svrtech> not found in group table(s)
owner name <aime> not found in passwd table(s)
/usr/lib/64/R/bin/COMPILE
ERROR: attribute verification of </usr/lib/64/R/share/texmf/tex/latex/upquote.sty> failed
group name <svrtech> not found in group table(s)
owner name <aime> not found in passwd table(s)
## Executing postinstall script.
Despite the errors i did extract supporting libraries to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and to my surprise i was able to start R without an error:
ROracle Distribution of R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) -- "Roasted Marshmallows"
Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: x86_64-pc-solaris2.10 (64-bit)
I don't understand what those errors received during installation mean. What could be a reason for? A fix?
Do you think i could safely ignore them?
Any help much appreciated.
Regards,
PS. I have a flash of enlightenment. Are those <svrtech> and <aime> in error messages a group and an user name of the account the package was prepared with (or something like that)??
Edited by: maxijazz on Mar 15, 2013 4:50 PM
Edited by: maxijazz on Mar 15, 2013 4:55 PM

Answer 1

Thank you Sherry,
Yes, it exists:
# ls -alh /usr/lib/64/R
total 568
drwxrwxr-x 10 root root 512 Mar 18 12:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root bin 16K Mar 18 12:31 ..
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 512 Mar 18 12:31 bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18K Dec 14 22:34 COPYING
drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 512 Mar 18 12:31 doc
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 512 Mar 18 12:31 etc
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 512 Mar 18 12:31 include
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 512 Mar 18 12:31 lib
drwxrwxr-x 31 root root 1.0K Mar 18 12:31 library
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 512 Mar 18 12:31 modules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 228K Dec 14 22:34 NEWS
drwxrwxr-x 10 root root 512 Mar 18 12:31 share
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Dec 14 22:34 SVN-REVISION
I did follow rest of installation procedure (installed supporting libraries for R, and then ORE Server and ORE supporting libraries) and everything works fine, so far.
I am just cautious before deploying in production.
Regards,