Dear Duncan, Ben and Megha

Thank you for your help! I tried

sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-rgl


And so all necessitated package were installed and I could install rgl..
nice!
Mat

  I believe the correct incantation is:

sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-rgl

  If that doesn't work, get back to us

 Ben Bolker


2008/10/27 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca>

> Matthieu Stigler wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> Im trying to install package rgl in a freshly installed Ubuntu 8.04
>> system. I have a problem (actually is has been reported three times on
>> the R-list but the answers were too complicated for me) when
>> installing:
>>
>> configure: using libpng dynamic linkage
>> checking for X... no
>> configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted.
>> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl'
>> ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgl'
>>
>> The downloaded packages are in
>>        /tmp/RtmpcnTzdW/downloaded_packages
>> Warning message:
>> In install.packages("rgl", dep = TRUE) :
>>  installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status
>>
>>
>> I see two potential explanations:
>> -to use rgl I should install some OpenGl package... is it right? which one
>> then?
>>
>>
>
> No, it's some X11 package you need to install, whichever one contains the
> includes and development libraries.  I'm not an Ubuntu user so I can't tell
> you which one.  BTW, rgl is now on R-forge, so you could post questions
> there.
>


>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>> -rgl only needs x11 but does not find it. I see actually that there is
>> no x11 in /usr/ but X11R6 does the problem come from that?
>>
>> PS: Im cross posting on R and rgl list
>>
>> Thank you for your help!
>>
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