On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | |On 10 March 2006 at 09:19, M Senthil Kumar wrote: || On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Andris Jankevics wrote: || |You have to install Xserver (x.org or XFree86) devel packages before || |compiling. || || Although, I don't remember which package i had installed, I remember || installing some X developer packages using apt-get earlier when ./config || itself had complained about it. But the problem that i had written about || earlier persists even after that during the 'make' step. | |i) Ubuntu is a Debian derivative. | |ii) Debian (+ thus Ubuntu) had binary ready-to-run packages for R since 1997. | Why not use them? | |iii) Even if you don't run the current release, there is a backport of | the current R release available via apt-get through CRAN and its | mirrors as explained in the R FAQ | |iv) If you still insist on locally building the package (for which one | may have a number of reasons) you are still _much_ better off doing | a rebuild of the Debian package, so consider learning about 'source' | entries for apt, and 'apt-get source r-base' which can download | and build R for you in one command. | |v) The build dependencies you are struggling with are encoded in the | Build-Depends: field of the file debian/control. You could use | them. For record, the current version says: | |Build-Depends: refblas3-dev | atlas3-base-dev, tcl8.4-dev, tk8.4-dev, |bison, groff-base, libncurses5-dev, libreadline5-dev, debhelper (>= |3.0.0), texi2html, texinfo (>= 4.1-2), libbz2-dev, libpcre3-dev, |tetex-bin, tetex-extra, xpdf-reader, zlib1g-dev, libpng12-dev, |libjpeg62-dev, libx11-dev, libxt-dev, x-dev | | but note that these are Debian package names which may need a tweak |on Ubuntu. If you use 'dpkg-buildpackage' it will check the |Build-Depends | for you long before configure may or may not fail. | |Hope this helps, Dirk | |-- |Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. | -- Thomas A. Edison |
Hi, Thanks for your help, following your advice i have installed R using apt-get successfully. Sorry for bothering everyone without checking CRAN in the first place. Regards, Senthil ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
