On Sun, 29 Aug 2021 10:16:16 +0200 Johannes Ranke <johannes.ra...@jrwb.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > for what it's worth, on a Debian bullseye system, configuring the R > 4.1.0 tarball works fine: > > $ wget > https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.1.0.tar.gz > $ tar xf R-4.1.0.tar.gz $ cd R-4.1.0/ > $ ./configure > > ... > checking if libcurl supports https... yes > ... > > with libcurl4 and libcurl4-gnutls-dev installed. I believe this > should also work on Ubuntu. Hmm. I may not have had libcurl4 properly installed; tried to install it (to make sure) and got a message about it having been "manually installed". (No idea how the <expletive deleted> that happened, but ne'er mind.) So I removed libcurl4, re-installed it, and tried the configure step again. Same result, same error. > You can try > > $ sudo apt build-dep r-base > > to pull in all build dependencies specified by Dirks R debs, and try > again. Thanks for the suggestion. I did sudo apt build-dep r-base as instructed. I then noticed that I could not run R --- got a "permission denied" error. So I next did: sudo apt-get install r-base After quite a while and after an enourmous amount of incomprehensible output had been spewed out onto the screen, the command appeared to succeed and I could run R again. I then tried the configure step, for building R 4.1.0 from source, again. Same result, same error. Why, in the name of all that's unholy, do these things happen to *me*? cheers, Rolf Turner P.S. Clearly there must be something broken in my system, but how on earth do I track down what's wrong? R. T. -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
