[R-pkg-devel] Rglpk on Linux

[Gábor Csárdi]

Hi,

on R-hub's Linux builders it is automatically installed if needed,
except that it wasn't on Fedora, because of a bug. Please try again,
and if it does not work report an issue on R-hub.

On Travis, you'll need to install the required packages yourself in
the `.travis.yml` file.

On CRAN's machines it should be installed, so nothing to worry about there.

If you don't have a Linux machine, but you have a fairly recent macOS
or Windows computer, then you can run Linux in Docker. If you ever
need to debug issues on Linux.

Gabor

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 1:33 PM Benjamin Becker
<b.becker using iqb.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Dear R developer list,
>
> I want to add 'Rglpk' as a dependency to a package. On windows and MacOS
> everything works fine, but there seem to be installation issues with the
> underlying optimization software 'GLPK' on Linux systems. The problem
> occurs when testing on Rhub and on Travis (I don't have a local Linux
> machine available):
>
> https://builder.r-hub.io/status/eatATA_0.9.0.tar.gz-bbf79f5120bc435d89eb4ea3f5b62918
>
> https://travis-ci.org/github/beckerbenj/eatATA/jobs/743971533
>
> with the error message:
>
> * installing *source* package ‘Rglpk’ ...
>
> ** package ‘Rglpk’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
> ** using staged installation
>
> ** libs
>
> /bin/bash: line 0: cd: GLPK: No such file or directory
>
> Makevars:10: recipe for target 'GLPK.ts' failed
>
> make: *** [GLPK.ts] Error 1
>
> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘Rglpk’
> I am aware that there are other/similar reports of Rglpk installation
> problems on Linux (e.g.
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25114771/glpk-no-such-file-or-directory-error-when-trying-to-install-r-package)
> But other reverse dependencies of Rglpk on CRAN do not appear to have
> these issues (e.g. mknapsack, MSCMT, npbr ...)? Thanks, Benjamin
>
>
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