Dirk Thanks, this seems to have solved the problem and I can now build R.
Paul Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Welcome to R-SIG-Debian :-) > > On 12 December 2007 at 18:17, Paul Gilbert wrote: > | I'm trying to build R from source on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. I've done > | apt-get install r-base-dev and apt-get libX11-dev, but R configure is > > You're close: 'r-base-dev' gives you (about) everything to run > 'install.package()' once you have R; libX11-dev ought to give you everything > but somehow doesn't so ... > > | still complaining about X11 headers/libs are not available. What else > | do I need? > > .. use the 'apt-get build-dep $package' command, ie > > $ sudo apt-get build-dep r-base > > which will pull in this list (as per the current Debian unstable package): > > Build-Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.1.0), g++ (>= 4:4.1.0), gfortran (>= 4:4.1.0), > refblas3-dev | atlas3-base-dev, tcl8.4-dev, tk8.4-dev, bison, groff-base, > libncurses5-dev, libreadline5-dev, debhelper (>= 5.0.0), 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 > > So in this particular case, libxt-dev and x-dev were still missing. > > 'apt-get build-dep $foo' is really convenient. Try 'apt-get source $foo' as > well to get sources (if you have entries like > > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free > > I use that all the time to fetch Debian sources onto Ubuntu machines at > work. It may at times conflict with what packages Ubuntu has, or what names > they used -- but for R and one or two dozen other Debian packages it has > always been useful for me on Ubuntu too. > > Cheers, Dirk > ==================================================================================== La version française suit le texte anglais. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email may contain privileged and/or confidential in...{{dropped:26}} _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
