use synaptic , search using fortran77 and blas and atlas (separately) and install all those libs- not an exact answer but thats what worked for my ubuntu 10.10 couple of days back
specifically ubuntu packages 4.0-2 (libcnf-dev) 3.0.0-1ubuntu1 (revolution-mkl) 1:4.1.1-5 (libnetcdf6) 3.8.3-22ubuntu2 (libatlas-base-dev) I am not sure but I these were the packages that finally got the job done- using synaptic Websites- http://decisionstats.com On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Douglas Bates <[email protected]> wrote: > I feel like Marlon Brando in "On the Waterfront" where he's told "It's > not your night, kid", except for me it has been the last two months > trying to debug memory problems. Now I can't even install an old > version of this package on a netbook running the Ubuntu 10.10 netbook > remix because it can't find the libraries libf77blas and libatlas. > > I have even gone to the extent of removing the r-base-core package > entirely and removing libatlas3gf-base then reinstalling everything. > I still get > > > bates@eeek:/var/tmp$ R CMD INSTALL lme4_0.999375-37.tar.gz > * installing to library â/home/bates/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12â > * installing *source* package âlme4â ... > ** libs > gcc -I/usr/share/R/include -I"/usr/lib/R/library/Matrix/include" > -I"/usr/lib/R/library/stats/include" -fpic -std=gnu99 -O3 -pipe -g > -c init.c -o init.o > gcc -I/usr/share/R/include -I"/usr/lib/R/library/Matrix/include" > -I"/usr/lib/R/library/stats/include" -fpic -std=gnu99 -O3 -pipe -g > -c lmer.c -o lmer.o > gcc -I/usr/share/R/include -I"/usr/lib/R/library/Matrix/include" > -I"/usr/lib/R/library/stats/include" -fpic -std=gnu99 -O3 -pipe -g > -c local_stubs.c -o local_stubs.o > gcc -shared -o lme4.so init.o lmer.o local_stubs.o -llapack -lf77blas > -latlas -lgfortran -lm -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lf77blas > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -latlas > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [lme4.so] Error 1 > ERROR: compilation failed for package âlme4â > * removing â/home/bates/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/lme4â > > The thing that seems to be missing in /usr/lib/ is a symbolic link > from libatlas.so.3gf to libatlas.so. All I have is > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2011-01-28 09:37 > libatlas.so.3gf -> /etc/alternatives/libatlas.so.3gf > > Can someone tell me if I should see a link from libatlas.so.3gf to > libatlas.so? > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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