R Gott wrote: (With a name like that you'd better get good at this....) ;-) > Dear anybody > > I am running Fedora Core 6 with the latest version of R. > > When I try to install the package RMySQL I get this message: > > * Installing *source* package 'RMySQL' ... > creating cache ./config.cache > checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp > checking for compress in -lz... no > checking for getopt_long in -lc... no > checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no > checking for mysql.h... no > checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no > checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no > checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no > checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no > checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no > > Configuration error: > Could not locate the library "libz" required by MySQL. > > INSTRUCTIONS: > > The "libz" library is required by the MySQL client library > in order to compress/uncompress connections between clients > and the MySQL engine. > > Make sure you have "libz" installed properly and/or included > in your $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Perhaps it is not in any of the > standard directories (e.g., /usr/lib/, /usr/local/lib)? > > Aborting the installation of RMySQL. > > I haev checked my installation adn foudn teh follwing files: > > /usr/lib/libz.so (whcih points to) > /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2 > > (not .so.1.2.3 ?) > Any help woudl be appreciated. I couldn't find anytign in teh archives. > > Richard > >
Looks like I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libz.so zlib-devel-1.2.3-3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -q zlib zlib-1.2.3-3 -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
