That helped!
 
I did not knew the build-dep option.
 
Thanks a lot.
 
laurin


>>> Ista Zahn <istazahn@gmail.com> 05.11.2009 13:42 >>>
Hi,
The easiest way to get everything you need is

sudo apt-get build-dep r-base

-Ista

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:13 AM, cremi <laurin.mueller@umit.at> wrote:
>
> I habe installed ubuntu 9.04 server (powerpc) i want to install an R version
>> 2.9.0 to run rmpi.
>
> When i add the repository to my sources.list
> deb http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu jaunty/
> with
> #sudo apt-get install r-base
> i get this:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  r-base: Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.10.0-1jaunty0) but 2.8.1-1 is to be
> installed
>          Depends: r-recommended (= 2.10.0-1jaunty0) but it is not going to
> be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
> There exists no binary of on the r-homepage for powerpc (only for i386 or
> amd64)
>
> so I tryied to install from source (R-2.9.2 and R-2.10.0)
>
> #./configure
> gives me:
> ...
> checking for history_truncate_file... no
> configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not
> available
>
> #./configure --with-readline=no
> i get this error
> checking whether f77 appends extra underscores to external names... yes
> checking whether mixed C/Fortran code can be run... configure: WARNING:
> cannot run mixed C/Fortran code
> configure: error: Maybe check LDFLAGS for paths to Fortran libraries?
>
>
> i have installed:
> libg2-dev
> libg2c0
> libx11-dev
> build-essential
> i even install
> gnome-desktop-environment
>
> now I don't know what to try next. Hopefully someone can help me.
>
> Regards
>
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Ista Zahn
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University of Rochester
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