[R-sig-Debian] can't open Cairo device

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Tue Mar 1 23:31:41 CET 2011


On 1 March 2011 at 16:05, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| Odd. Maybe it needs a rebuild? Confirmed on Ubuntu 10.10.
| 
| R> library(cairoDevice)
| R> Cairo()
| Error in Cairo() : Graphics API version mismatch
| R> 

That was the r-cran-cairodevice. After install the Build-Depends:
     
     libgtk2.0-dev libcairo2-dev

and installing from source it works here too on 10.10.

I guess the binary package didn't catch an underlying Gtk change. I will
upload a rebuild to Debian.

Dirk

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