[R] Installing Package rgl - Compilation Fails - Summary

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Ranjan Maitra wrote:

> Hi Duncan,
>
> I don't know if this will list all the dependencies for your 
> documentation, since Rick's error messages did not involve libraries and 
> header files already installed by him for something else, perhaps.

It will not, and most of this is already in the README.  The problem is 
the penchant for linux distros to break standard pieces of software into 
ever smaller pieces, so naming the pieces is often no great help 6 months 
later.

On  FC5/6 I think

yum install mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel libXext-devel libpng-devel

should do it.  (Note that mesa-libGL-devel appears to have been already 
there, and libXext-devel pulls in the rest of the X11 stuff.)

A quick check shows -lXext is actually not needed, so it could be removed 
from configure.ac and the requirements: that would make a lot more sense.

>
> Just a thought.
>
> Ranjan
>
>
>
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:59:24 -0500 Rick Bilonick <rab45+ at pitt.edu> wrote:
>
>> Summarizing:
>>
>> I'm running R 2.4.1 on a current FC6 32-bit system. In order to have the
>> rgl R package install, I needed to install both mesa-libGLU-devel (FC6
>> version is 6.5.1-9) and libXext-devel (FC6) rpm packages. Thanks to
>> everyone who commented.
>>
>> Rick B.


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