On 3 May 2010 at 10:05, mat wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : | > On 2 May 2010 at 23:47, mat wrote: | > | Thanks for the prompt answer! Sorry, forgot to precise the important | > | point that I'm using Ubuntu... | > | | > | $apt-cache show r-cran-rmpi | > | Package: r-cran-rmpi | > | Priority: optional | > | Section: universe/math | > | Installed-Size: 1016 | > | Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <[email protected]> | > | Original-Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> | > | Architecture: amd64 | > | Source: rmpi | > | Version: 0.5-7-3build2 | > | | > | so it is still version 0.5-7, and it looks like R is complaining it want | > | a pkg compiled against 2.11... | > | > So if you complaint is that the package is too old ... you could get the | > package sources and build yourself a newer one locally. | > | yes! But the pkg was not the easiest to compile without the trick below
You misunderstand: if you rebuild as a local package, so use the same Build-Depends you used for a R-only install and get all required components. That is how it gets automated. | > | Actually, I found a solution, which was to install also dependencies: | > | | > | sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-rmpi | > | | > | and then finally the command: | > | | > | sudo R CMD INSTALL Rmpi --configure-args=--with-mpi=/usr/lib/openmpi | > | | > | | > | worked, so I could install it! | > | > Yes, 'apt-get build-dep foo' is a good trick. Another I like (and use on | > Ubuntu) is 'apt-get source foo' -- with an additonal deb-src entry pointing to | > Debian unstable. That way you can get newest packages in source and then | > built them into a deb locally. | > | Okay, nice! Actually, I had similar problems with a few other packages | which have complicated depedencies too (rgl, Rgtk2, rpvm) and could not | compile them, but using the build-dep trick I could finally update them | from within R! | | But I feel that using this method I install many more packages than | required actually... no? Do you think it would be possible to update | them once? I know it is unfortunately much more cumbersome to do this on | Ubuntu than on Debian :-( Well maybe you you do not like the six-month cycle of Ubuntu ... so maybe you do not run Ubuntu. Or maybe you are looking a for volunteer to provide current backport of Debian r-cran-* packages for Ubuntu. Maybe this is something you want to start then? ;-) -- Regards, Dirk _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
