[R-sig-Debian] Updating packages after install of r-base 2.6.2: cant update rgl

Johannes Ranke jranke at uni-bremen.de
Thu Apr 10 16:07:35 CEST 2008


Hi Dirk and Michael,

> ... We differentiate between Depends (to run) and
> Build-Depends (to compile and link).

yes, probably just xserver-xorg-dev is missing, but your suggestion is
much better: 

> What you may need is a simple 
>         sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-rgl
> which should give you everything needed to build rgl (even if you do not turn
> it into a local .deb)

Right, if newer rgl versions have not added dependencies not present in
r-cran-rgl from etch.
 
> I may have misunderstood, in which case I apologize for adding further
> confusion. 

On the contrary, I think you are right on!

Johannes



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