[R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu 8.10: Package installation fails (lf77blasproblem)

[Pfaff, Bernhard Dr.]

Hello Ulrich,

maybe the installation of the packages 'r-base-core-ra' and 'r-cran-jit'
(the former package is suggested by the latter) will solve your problem.
I ran into to the same problem, though for different CRAN packages and
IIRC after installation of the two deb-packages all was fine.

Best,
Bernhard

>
>I just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 (i386) from 8.04. After the 
>upgrade, I ran
>update.packages(.libPaths()[1]) in R to get the packages 
>installed from source
>up to date too. Unfortunately, two packages could not be 
>updated: mclust and
>mboost. In both cases, the error I got mentioned lf77blas. 
>Here's the output for
>mboost:
>
>* Installing *source* package 'mboost' ...
>** libs
>gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include      -fpic  -g -O2 -c 
>mboost.c -o mboost.o
>gcc -std=gnu99 -shared  -o mboost.so mboost.o -lf77blas 
>-latlas -lgfortran -lm 
>-L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
>/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lf77blas
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>make: *** [mboost.so] Error 1
>ERROR: compilation failed for package 'mboost'
>
>I guess this has something to do with the removal of the g77 
>package from Ubuntu
>8.10. Is there anything I can do short of compiling g77 and/or 
>R myself?
>
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