[R-sig-Debian] rgl install failed...

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:32:37AM +0200, Petar Milin wrote:
> Hello, again!
> Sorry for being tedious, that's because of having no experience enough,  
> but I really want to learn.
>
> Please, let me know what I am doing wrong now; I did following:
>
> 1. apt-get install -t unstable r-cran-rgl
>
> 2. then, from R, tried to do install.packages("rgl"), but that failed  
> for same reasons as before:
>    checking for X... no
>    configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted.
>    ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgl’

To be expected. 

Installing the _binary_ package ensures you can _run_ the code, not
build the code.

> 3. then, I tried apt-get build-dep r-cran-rgl, and it went fine
>
> 4. finally, back to install.packages("rgl"), and now it failed for some  
> other reasons:
>    checking for GL/glu.h... yes
>    checking for glEnd in -lGL... no
>    configure: error: missing required library GL
>    ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgl’

Odd. It works for us, see this log of all automated builds across time:

	https://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=rgl

Given the required packages, rgl builds reliably for us.  Something
must be different at your end, but given the information you supplied
it pretty difficult to say what you need to change. 

You may need to debug this locally. 

Dirk

> I think I did everything you said in your previous letters. Please, bear  
> with me and let me learn and fix this.
>
> Thank you. Best,
> PM
>
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