[R-sig-Debian] Unable to install Cairo package

[Vera, Pedro L.]

Thanks for your help Jeff. The offending package was libxt-dev . Cairo now installed without a problem
Pedro
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From: Jeffrey Horner [jeff.horner at vanderbilt.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 12:51 PM
To: Vera, Pedro L.
Cc: r-sig-debian at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Unable to install Cairo package

Vera, Pedro L. wrote on 11/14/2008 04:20 PM:
> Hello:
> I'm running R 2.7.1 in Antix (Mepis kernel but heavily debian based).  I have installed libcairo2 (1.6.4-6.1). I tried installing the Cairo package since I'm interested in generating some SVG graphs, and I got the following message:
>
> Only partial output (lines with no):
>
> ....
> checking if R was compiled with the RConn patch... no
> checking cairo.h usability... yes
> checking cairo.h presence... yes
> checking for cairo.h... yes
> checking for PNG support in Cairo... yes
> checking for ATS font support in Cairo... no
> ....
> checking whether cairo_image_surface_get_format is declared... no
> checking for FreeType support in cairo... yes
> checking whether FreeType needs additional flags... no
> checking wheter libjpeg works... yes
> checking wheter libtiff works... no
> configure: creating ./config.status
> ...
> xlib-backend.c:34:74: error: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such file or directory
> xlib-backend.c: In function 'Rcairo_init_xlib':
> xlib-backend.c:158: warning: implicit declaration of function 'XrmUniqueQuark'
> make: *** [xlib-backend.o] Error 1
> chmod: cannot access `/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Cairo/libs/*': No such file or directory
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'Cairo'
> ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Cairo'
>
> I hope I provided enough of the output (and enough system information).  I don't know what the "Rconn patch" is and perhaps that is the problem?

Not at all. In fact when I read the error messages, it says that it
cannot find X11/Intrinsic.h, so that's a problem with Xlib which means
you'll need to install the appropriate "-dev" debian package. For
instance on Ubuntu hardy, I would shoot for installing xserver-xorg-dev.

But before you do anything else, I would recommend updating to R 2.8.0
as 2.7.1 is so yesterday.

Jeff

>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Pedro L Vera
>
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