[R] Cannot Install Cairo Library

[Lorenzo Isella]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 22 May 2009 at 13:42, Lorenzo Isella wrote:
> | Dear All,
> | I am running Debian testing on my box and I have R 2.9.0 installed from 
> | the standard repositories.
> | I downloaded the package source from
> | http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Cairo/index.html
> | but when I try to install it on my system, this is what I get
> | 
> | $ sudo R CMD INSTALL Cairo_1.4-4.tar.gz
> | * Installing to library ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
> | * Installing *source* package ‘Cairo’ ...
> | checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
> [...]
> | gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/cairo 
> | -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb 
> | -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I. -Iinclude -g -O2 -fpic -g -O2 -c 
> | xlib-backend.c -o xlib-backend.o
> | xlib-backend.c:34:74: error: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such file or directory
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> edd at ron:~$ dpkg -S `locate Intrinsic.h`
> libxt-dev: /usr/include/X11/Intrinsic.h
> edd at ron:~$
>
> | xlib-backend.c: In function ‘Rcairo_init_xlib’:
> | xlib-backend.c:158: warning: implicit declaration of function 
> | ‘XrmUniqueQuark’
> | make: *** [xlib-backend.o] Error 1
> | ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘Cairo’
> | * Removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Cairo’
> | 
> | Is there a header file missing? Or is there anything wrong with my system?
> | Many thanks
>
> Please run 'sudo apt-get install libxt-dev' and try again.
>
> Dirk
>
>   
Perfect! Now Cairo installs nicely.
Many thanks

Lorenzo