[R-sig-Debian] X11 headers/libs

[Paul Gilbert]

Dirk

Thanks, this seems to have solved the problem and I can now build R.

Paul

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Welcome to R-SIG-Debian :-) 
> 
> On 12 December 2007 at 18:17, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> | I'm trying to build R from source on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. I've done 
> | apt-get install r-base-dev and  apt-get libX11-dev,  but R configure is
> 
> You're close: 'r-base-dev' gives you (about) everything to run
> 'install.package()' once you have R; libX11-dev ought to give you everything
> but somehow doesn't so ...
>  
> | still complaining about X11 headers/libs are not available.  What else 
> | do I need?
> 
> ..  use the 'apt-get build-dep $package' command, ie
> 
> 	$ sudo apt-get build-dep r-base
> 
> which will pull in this list (as per the current Debian unstable package):
> 
> Build-Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.1.0), g++ (>= 4:4.1.0), gfortran (>= 4:4.1.0), refblas3-dev | atlas3-base-dev, tcl8.4-dev, tk8.4-dev, bison, groff-base, libncurses5-dev, libreadline5-dev, debhelper (>= 5.0.0), texi2html, texinfo (>= 4.1-2), libbz2-dev, libpcre3-dev, tetex-bin, tetex-extra, xpdf-reader, zlib1g-dev, libpng12-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libx11-dev, libxt-dev, x-dev
> 
> So in this particular case, libxt-dev and x-dev were still missing.
> 
> 'apt-get build-dep $foo' is really convenient. Try 'apt-get source $foo' as
> well to get sources (if you have entries like 
> 
> 	deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
> 
> I use that all the time to fetch Debian sources onto Ubuntu machines at
> work.  It may at times conflict with what packages Ubuntu has, or what names
> they used -- but for R and one or two dozen other Debian packages it has
> always been useful for me on Ubuntu too.
> 
> Cheers, Dirk
> 
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