[R-sig-Debian] ubuntu hardy heron and lme4

[Anne York]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

DE > 
DE > On 1 March 2010 at 08:08, Anne York wrote:
DE > | Hi Michael:
DE > | 
DE > | I already tried reinstalling from with R on cran -- after 
DE > | checking on the status of LAPACK:
DE > | 
DE > | /usr/bin/R CMD config LAPACK_LIBS
DE > | 
DE > | to which the system responded 
DE > | 
DE > | -llapack
DE > | 
DE > | The result was the same. The programs within lme4 failed to 
DE > | compile because -llapack was not found. The error message 
DE > | during installation was: 
DE > | 
DE > | /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack
DE > | collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
DE > 
DE > Do 'dpkg -l | grep lapack' and make sure you see liblapack-dev as installed.
DE > 
DE > Also do 'ldd /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R' and make sure you do _not_ have a depends
DE > on Rlapack.so.  There was an important change in the Fortran compiler a while
DE > back; I no longer anything as ancient as Ubuntu 8.04.  It may still date back
DE > to those days...
DE >   
DE > Dirk
DE > 


Thanks Dirk. that did the trick. I did not have the 
development version installed. 

Re the oldness of Ubuntu 8.04 -- These days I'm staying with 
LTS versions. 

Anne