[R-sig-Debian] updating rgl on debian stable

[Michael Friendly]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

>On 11 December 2006 at 17:20, Michael Friendly wrote:
>| Running: R Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01), debian stable
>| 
>| I'm testing an application that uses rgl (installed with apt-get install 
>| r-cran-rgl)
>| but fails, at least partly because that application uses a more current 
>| version.
>| There is also a mysterious error msg from Xlib:
>
>  
>
...

>| Is this what I need?
>| euclid:/tmp# aptitude search xfree86-dri
>| p   xfree86-driver-synaptics        - dummy package to upgrade to X.Org 
>| new modu
>| euclid:/tmp#
>
>Most likely, you need more. Fortunately, this is easy.  Use apt-get and say
>
>	$ apt-get build-dep r-cran-rgl
>
>which should install the missing the pieces (x11 headers and all that). 
>
>Hth, Dirk
>
>  
>
Hmm,  perhaps there is a problem with the package?
euclid:/tmp# man apt-get
Reformatting apt-get(8), please wait...
euclid:/tmp# apt-get build-dep r-cran-rgl
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Build-dependencies for r-cran-rgl could not be satisfied.

The dependencies don't give me a clue:

euclid:/tmp# apt-cache depends r-cran-rgl
r-cran-rgl
  Depends: r-base-core
 |Depends: libgl1-mesa-glx
  Depends: <libgl1>
    mesag3
    mesag3+ggi
    mesag3-glide2
    libgl1-mesa-glide3
    libgl1-mesa-glx
    libgl1-mesa-swx11
 |Depends: libglu1-mesa
  Depends: <libglu1>
    libglu1-mesa
  Depends: libpng12-0
euclid:/tmp# apt-cache rdepends r-cran-rgl
r-cran-rgl
Reverse Depends:
  r-cran-rcmdr
  r-cran-misc3d
  r-cran-rcmdr
euclid:/tmp#


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