[R-sig-Debian] R CMD INSTALL cannot find libf77blas

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 28 January 2011 at 21:52, Ajay Ohri wrote:
| use synaptic , search using fortran77 and blas and atlas (separately) and
| install all those libs- not an exact answer but thats what worked for my
| ubuntu 10.10 couple of days back
| 
| specifically ubuntu packages
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| 4.0-2 (libcnf-dev)
| 3.0.0-1ubuntu1 (revolution-mkl)
| 1:4.1.1-5 (libnetcdf6)
| 3.8.3-22ubuntu2 (libatlas-base-dev)
| 
| I am not sure but I these were the packages that finally got the job done-
| using synaptic

You are not adding anything of value to the discussion.  Please consider reviewing

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus#Proposition_7

Cheers,  Dirk

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| On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> wrote:
| 
| > I feel like Marlon Brando in "On the Waterfront" where he's told "It's
| > not your night, kid", except for me it has been the last two months
| > trying to debug memory problems.  Now I can't even install an old
| > version of this package on a netbook running the  Ubuntu 10.10 netbook
| > remix because it can't find the libraries libf77blas and libatlas.
| >
| > I have even gone to the extent of removing the r-base-core package
| > entirely and removing libatlas3gf-base then reinstalling everything.
| > I still get
| >
| >
| > bates at eeek:/var/tmp$ R CMD INSTALL lme4_0.999375-37.tar.gz
| > * installing to library ‘/home/bates/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12’
| > * installing *source* package ‘lme4’ ...
| > ** libs
| > gcc -I/usr/share/R/include   -I"/usr/lib/R/library/Matrix/include"
| > -I"/usr/lib/R/library/stats/include"   -fpic  -std=gnu99 -O3 -pipe  -g
| > -c init.c -o init.o
| > gcc -I/usr/share/R/include   -I"/usr/lib/R/library/Matrix/include"
| > -I"/usr/lib/R/library/stats/include"   -fpic  -std=gnu99 -O3 -pipe  -g
| > -c lmer.c -o lmer.o
| > gcc -I/usr/share/R/include   -I"/usr/lib/R/library/Matrix/include"
| > -I"/usr/lib/R/library/stats/include"   -fpic  -std=gnu99 -O3 -pipe  -g
| > -c local_stubs.c -o local_stubs.o
| > gcc -shared -o lme4.so init.o lmer.o local_stubs.o -llapack -lf77blas
| > -latlas -lgfortran -lm -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
| > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lf77blas
| > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -latlas
| > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
| > make: *** [lme4.so] Error 1
| > ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘lme4’
| > * removing ‘/home/bates/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/lme4’
| >
| > The thing that seems to be missing in /usr/lib/ is a symbolic link
| > from libatlas.so.3gf to libatlas.so.  All I have is
| >
| >
| >  lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root           33 2011-01-28 09:37
| > libatlas.so.3gf -> /etc/alternatives/libatlas.so.3gf
| >
| > Can someone tell me if I should see a link from libatlas.so.3gf to
| > libatlas.so?
| >
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