On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Abed W. Ayyad <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Dirk et al, > > What I've tried is to install libgeos-dev: > sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev > I had no problem installing tmap on my Linux Mint 17.1 system: $ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint DISTRIB_RELEASE=17.1 DISTRIB_CODENAME=rebecca DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca" $ apt-cache show libgeos-dev Package: libgeos-dev Priority: optional Section: universe/libdevel Installed-Size: 389 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Original-Maintainer: Debian GIS Project < [email protected]> Architecture: amd64 Source: geos Version: 3.4.2-4ubuntu1 Depends: libgeos-c1 (= 3.4.2-4ubuntu1) Suggests: libgdal-doc Filename: pool/universe/g/geos/libgeos-dev_3.4.2-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 58388 MD5sum: cbe65f77f3d3116efe6c07ad47fc3580 SHA1: 7ec397bfd27cdabee21a21ed846e618b6df3b0e1 SHA256: 23610755d31948bfc22b46af7df3fea058850e2d07028ecec2e22e1308bd3734 Description-en_CA: 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 Check "Software Sources". There should be in the Mirrors section for "Main (rebecca)" and "Base (trusty)". "Base" is for Mint-specifc packages, but the vast majority just come from "Main", which is Ubuntu trusty. I have had problems with mirror sites that weren't being maintained, so I suggest you try selecting a different site for the Base packages. > > Which gives me, even after adding the ubuntugis-unstable PPA: > E: Unable to locate package libgeos-dev > > So I'm a little stuck at the moment. I'm trying to install TMAP on > R-Studio, which requires a number of packages all of which rely on the > libgeos-dev being in place, and I can't seem to find it. > > Many thanks again and in advance, > > Abed > > On 31 May 2015 at 16:20, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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] > > > > > > -- > 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 > -- George N. 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