[R] (installing on SUSE readline failure)

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, John Kapsomenakis wrote:

> Dear friends

Please include an informative subject!

> 
> I try to install R-project in SUSE 10.0 LINUX. 

Did you read the online version of the R Installation and Administration 
manual at:

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html

There you will find information in Appendix A about your problem. Please 
also check that you have the development RPMs installed as well as those 
providing readline as such. Appendix A does start with the reminder to:

"Remember that some package management systems (such as RPM and deb) make 
a distinction between the user version of a package and the development 
version. The latter usually has the same name but with the extension 
`-devel' or `-dev': you need both versions installed."

> I run the ./configure. The last lines during the run is
> 
> checking readline/history.h usability... no
> checking readline/history.h presence... no
> checking for readline/history.h... no
> checking readline/readline.h usability... no
> checking readline/readline.h presence... no
> checking for readline/readline.h... no
> checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
> checking for main in -lncurses... no
> checking for main in -ltermcap... no
> checking for main in -ltermlib... no
> checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
> checking for history_truncate_file... no
> configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not
> available
> 
> I'm now hoping for some help
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> john
> 
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