On 31 May 2015 at 09:48, Abed W. Ayyad wrote: | Copied and sent from another address: | | | On 31 May 2015 at 09:43, Abed W. Ayyad <[email protected]> wrote: | | > To the R-Sig-Debian list: | > | > Hello, this is my first post to the list and I hope that making it short | > and swift does not make it come across as abrupt or rude. | > | > I'm having trouble installing the TMAP package on R-Studio on my build of | > Linux Mint. I was able to narrow this down to the lack of the libgeos-dev | > library, which I tried to install via the terminal, but I constantly get | > the "unable to locate package" error. I've also changed/added repositories | > several times over the past week or so.
Exactly what did you try? My system has libgeos-dev. At the prompt: edd@max:~$ apt-cache show libgeos-dev Package: libgeos-dev Priority: optional Section: universe/libdevel Installed-Size: 403 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Original-Maintainer: Debian GIS Project <[email protected]> Architecture: amd64 Source: geos Version: 3.4.2-6build1 Depends: libgeos-c1 (= 3.4.2-6build1) Suggests: libgdal-doc Filename: pool/universe/g/geos/libgeos-dev_3.4.2-6build1_amd64.deb Size: 60386 MD5sum: de32c018df4d9e4bad8e52e7fc8cd610 SHA1: 2a0bfb9b45dfac27f5dd50afc826619e1b3b9f87 SHA256: 998ce25887b62c1ad9ea0829e0306295df6f380bc83a8f5e136246bc46631c45 Description-en: Geometry engine for GIS - Development files GEOS provides a spatial object model and fundamental geometric functions. It implements the geometry model defined in the OpenGIS Consortium Simple Features Specification for SQL. . This package contains the headers and libraries needed to develop programs using GEOS. Description-md5: 3f1f0c4d5fc2ab9465b9947eec04cda4 Homepage: http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Origin: Ubuntu edd@max:~$ apt-cache policy libgeos-dev libgeos-dev: Installed: 3.4.2-6build1 Candidate: 3.4.2-6build1 Version table: *** 3.4.2-6build1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status edd@max:~$ This shows that if I did sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev it would istall version 3.4.2-6build1 from the main ubuntu archive. | > Is there anything that can be done for this problem? Has the libgeos-dev | > library been taken off of the repositories? I do not know what Mint does but I doubt it. Dirk | > Best regards, | > | > Abed Ayyad | > | > -- | > For very rudimentary descriptive statistics on Doha: | > http://notesfromdoha.blogspot.com/ | > | | | | -- | For very rudimentary descriptive statistics on Doha: | http://notesfromdoha.blogspot.com/ | | [[alternative HTML version deleted]] | | _______________________________________________ | R-SIG-Debian mailing list | [email protected] | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
