[R] problem installing R 2.5

[Göran Broström]

libX11-dev?

Göran

On 2016-11-07 19:27, Lentes, Bernd via R-help wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'd like to install R 2.5 on an Ubuntu 14.04. I have a special
> software requiring this old version.
>
> While ./configure, i get the following error:
>
> checking for mbstate_t... yes checking for X... no configure: error:
> --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available
>
> The problem is that i don't know which headers or libraries are
> missing, and when i search with aptitude in the Ubuntu repositories i
> find a ton of them and don't know which one to install.
>
> Can anyone help me ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Bernd
>