[R-sig-Debian] no acceptable C compiler

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

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On 28 March 2006 at 00:20, Fred J. wrote:
| 
|  Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:  
| On 27 March 2006 at 14:52, Fred J. wrote:
| | dear R users
| |  
| |  not sure why I am not able to install tkrplot.
| |  > install.pacakges ("tkrplot", dependencies=TRUE)
| 
| For this particular package, you can do
| 
|  $ apt-get install r-cran-tkrplot
| 
| instead :)

So did you get r-cran-tkrplot installed?

| |  ...
| |  Configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $path
| |  ...
| 
| That looks like a mismatch between what R was built with and what you have
| installed.  What does this show on your box?
| 
| edd at basebud:~$ grep ^CC /etc/R/Makeconf 
| CC = gcc
| 
| It may want gcc-3.3 or gcc-3.4 in which case you'd need to install that
| package
|  
|  fred at debian:~$ grep ^CC /etc/R/Makeconf 
|   CC = gcc
|  
|  # dpkg -l gcc*
|  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|  | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|  |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
|  ||/ Name           Version        Description
|  +++-==============-==============-============================================
|  ii  gcc-3.3-base   3.3.6-10       The GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
|  ii  gcc-3.4-base   3.4.5-2        The GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
|  un  gcc-3.5-base   <none>         (no description available)
|  ii  gcc-4.0-base   4.0.3-1        The GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
|  un  gcc-4.0-locale <none>         (no description available)
|  debian:/home/fred# 

Looks like you deleted the package called 'gcc'. Run 'apt-get install gcc'
and you should be fine. On my testing system:

edd at basebud:~> dpkg -l "gcc*" | grep "4.0"
ii  gcc             4.0.2-2        The GNU C compiler
ii  gcc-4.0         4.0.3-1        The GNU C compiler
ii  gcc-4.0-base    4.0.3-1        The GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
un  gcc-4.0-doc     <none>         (no description available)
un  gcc-4.0-locales <none>         (no description available)


Hope this helps,  Dirk

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