[R] configuration error when installing gtkDevice

[Dimitri Giunchi]

Thank you very much to everybody for the help: now it works fine.

Dimitri



At 08.51 04/07/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>When compiling the gtkDevice package, we need the gtk+ development
>libraries, i.e. libgtk.so and header files such as gtk.h.  The
>error message saying 'Cannot find gtk-config' means that we cannot
>locate the script that is used to tell us where the header files
>and libraries are located.
>
>So this means that you more than likely don't have the development
>libraries on your system.  You will need to ensure that these are
>available before installing gtkDevice. There should be
>ready-to-install binaries for gtk for the Mandrake packaging system
>
>Then, hopefully all will proceed smoothly.
>
>  D.
>
>Dimitri Giunchi wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > when I try to install gtkDevice on Mandrake Linux 9.1 (R v. 1.7.1), I get
> > the following comfiguration error (see below).
> >
> > Has anyone else had this problem?
> > Any hints are greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > Dimitri
> >
> >
> >
> > install.packages("gtkDevice")
> > trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
> > Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 111935 bytes
> > opened URL
> > .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
> > .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
> > .........
> > downloaded 109Kb
> >
> > trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/gtkDevice_0.5-3.tar.gz'
> > Content type `application/x-tar' length 41535 bytes
> > opened URL
> > .......... .......... .......... ..........
> > downloaded 40Kb
> >
> > * Installing *source* package 'gtkDevice' ...
> > checking for gtk-config... no
> > checking for gtk12-config... no
> > ERROR: Cannot find gtk-config.
> > ERROR: configuration failed for package 'gtkDevice'
> >
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Dimitri Giunchi
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