Thanks Johannes See the tests below.
Johannes Ranke wrote: > Hi Michael, > > * Michael Friendly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080409 22:00]: > >> Hi >> >> I just upgraded my R from stabel/etch from 2.4.x to 2.6.2 via >> >> sudo apt-get install r-base >> which worked fine, installing all dependencies >> > > I suppose you put some CRAN mirror into your /etc/apt/sources.list? > cat /etc/apt/sources.list #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ stable main deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ stable main deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian-security stable/updates main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main # testing deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ testing main # CRAN has newer stable than debian.yorku.ca deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/debian stable/ > > >> From R, as root, I did >> >> update.packages() >> >> but a number of packages packages failed to install, either for missing >> gfortran >> or missing dependencies. >> > > Yes, you need to explicitly upgrade r-base-dev, too, if you want to > install packages from CRAN. > > ... > >> ... >> >> OK, I installed r-base-dev to get gfortran and other dependencies, then >> tried >> update.packages() again. This time only rgl failed, complaining about >> missing X11: >> >> trying URL 'http://probability.ca/cran/src/contrib/rgl_0.77.tar.gz' >> Content type 'application/x-tar' length 803692 bytes (784 Kb) >> opened URL >> ================================================== >> downloaded 784 Kb >> >> * Installing *source* package 'rgl' ... >> checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99 >> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out >> checking whether the C compiler works... yes >> checking whether we are cross compiling... no >> checking for suffix of executables... >> checking for suffix of object files... o >> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes >> checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes >> checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ANSI C... none needed >> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E >> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc -std=gnu99 >> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes >> checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... (cached) yes >> checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed >> checking for libpng-config... yes >> configure: using libpng-config >> configure: using libpng dynamic linkage >> checking for X... no >> configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted. >> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl' >> ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/site-library/rgl' >> ** Restoring previous '/usr/lib/R/site-library/rgl' >> > > > Could you give us the output of > > apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-core > > or just tell us if you have Xorg installed? > > Yes, I do: apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-core: Installed: 2:1.1.1-21 Candidate: 2:1.1.1-21etch4 Version table: 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12 0 200 http://debian.yorku.ca testing/main Packages 2:1.1.1-21etch4 0 900 http://debian.yorku.ca stable/main Packages 2:1.1.1-21etch3 0 900 http://debian.yorku.ca stable/updates/main Packages 900 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages *** 2:1.1.1-21 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status >> Finally, I tried to install r-cran-rgl, but with no joy: >> >> euclid:~# apt-get install r-cran-rgl >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree... Done >> r-cran-rgl is already the newest version. >> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 267 not upgraded. >> >> Can anyone suggest what is wrong and how to fix it? >> >> > > -- Michael Friendly Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor, Psychology Dept. York University Voice: 416 736-5115 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814 4700 Keele Street http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/friendly.html Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
