[R-sig-DB] roracle in linux

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 06/03/2012 21:27, jose luis cañadas wrote:
> Hello.
> This is a copy of my email to r-sig-deb

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Following the R posting guide, what did the package maintainer say?

> I'm trying install roracle in my debian 64 bit system. I've read the
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ROracle/INSTALL and I've
> installed Oracel Instant Client by rpm package (using alien to deb convert).
>
> When I try to install I write
>
>    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
>
> in terminal and then I download ROracle_1.1-1.tar.gz from cran and I
> type sudo R CMD INSTALL ROracle_1.1-1.tar.gz where I've downloaded the
> tar.gz file.
>
> I always get the same error
> jose using jose-laptop:~/Descargas$ sudo R CMD INSTALL ROracle_1.1-1.tar.gz
> * installing to library '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'
> * installing *source* package 'ROracle' ...
> ** package 'ROracle' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> configure: error: OCI libraries not found
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'ROracle'
> * removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ROracle'
>
> and I don't understand why. any idea?
>
> Thanks.
>
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