[R-sig-Debian] configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available

[Tim Booth]

Hi Sathish,

You can ask Debian to install all the build dependencies for a given
source package like so:

sudo apt-get build-dep r-base

Does that help?

TIM

On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 03:56 +0000, Srinivasan, Sathish K wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I am trying to install R.2.15.3 from the source code obtained from http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.3.tar.gz  in my Debian version: Squeeze box.
> 
> In order to have multiple versions of R in my system, I gave this command to configure.
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/R2.15.3/
> 
> Subsequently, I got two warnings and one error message such as the following:
> 
> configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
> configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of vignettes and help pages
> configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available
> 
> Could someone direct me with a solution to the above issues. From the
> error messages, I can understand that I am not having the required X11
> headers/libs, so what packages in debian squeeze should I have to
> install for the error messages to disappear during compilation of R
> source code.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> -Sathish
> 
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