[R-sig-Debian] Update to 2.8 and problem with liblapack

[Sebastian P. Luque]

Hi,

I remember this was a problem with some packages a while back in Debian.
It has now been fixed, but I don't know about Ubuntu.

BTW, may I ask what all the fuss is about Ubuntu?  Why are so many
people so hyped about it and prefer it over Debian?  Note: this is not
bait for distro wars, just genuine curiosity.  Excuse the tangential OT!


Seb



On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:36:39 +0530,
Matthieu Stigler <matthieu.stigler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello To update from R 2.6 to 2.8 (on Ubuntu 8.04 both) I had to
> install new tcl and liblapack packages (excuse me it is in french):

>> sudo apt-get install r-base-dev Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
>> Construction de l'arbre des dépendances Lecture des informations
>> d'état... Fait Les paquets supplémentaires suivants seront installés
>> : libblas-dev liblapack-dev r-base-core tcl8.5 tk8.5 Paquets suggérés
>> : cdbs Les paquets suivants seront ENLEVÉS : refblas3-dev Les
>> NOUVEAUX paquets suivants seront installés : libblas-dev
>> liblapack-dev tcl8.5 tk8.5 Les paquets suivants seront mis à jour :
>> r-base-core r-base-dev 2 mis à jour, 4 nouvellement installés, 1 à
>> enlever et 19 non mis à jour.
> It installed libblas-dev liblapack-dev and removed refblas3-dev.

> I'm now unable to run the Matrix library, whatever I install it from
> within R or with apt-get, it claims a problem:

>> library(Matrix) Loading required package: lattice Error in
>> dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load shared
>> library '/usr/lib/R/site-library/Matrix/libs/Matrix.so':
>> libRlapack.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>> directory Error: package/namespace load failed for 'Matrix'

> but there is a file Natrix.so in this directory (but no libRlapack.so)

> Do you see where the problem is? Was I right to update R in this
> manner?

> Thanks!

> Matthieu



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Seb